What do Cornell University, Kansas State University, and Florida A&M University have in common? They are three of the hundreds of land-grant universities in the United States.
In 1985, a Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior exploded in Auckland Harbor. The arrest of two French intelligence officers for the crime sparked an international scandal.
In 1919, the Cincinnati Reds defeated the heavily favored Chicago White Sox in the baseball World Series. One year later, the news broke that the Sox had thrown the game to the Reds, in exchange for bribes from organized crimes Besmirched by the scandal, the 1919 White Sox were referred to ever after as “The Black Sox.”
The exposure of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in 1972 shocked the nation. More than fifty years later, its impact upon public health continues.
See how a 19th-century spending law evolved into today’s government shutdowns, halting aid, closing agencies, and impacting millions of Americans.
The City of Washington, D.C. occupies a unique legal position, as both the seat of government to the United States, and the home of more than 700,000 residents, who are subject to a distinctive set of laws and restrictions.
When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he was hoping for a revolution. We got the Food and Drug Administration instead.
In 1852, a fleet of American warships known as the Perry Expedition arrived in Tokyo Bay, demanding the admittance of American trade to Japan. The resulting treaties, signed under threat of force, would forever transform the global power structure.
On November 4, 1825, a group of dignitaries gathered aboard a boat in New York Harbor to watch Governor De Witt Clinton dump a barrel of lake water into the sea. Thus was born the Erie Canal.
In the wake of the Civil War, Reconstruction sought to reshape America. Its legacy remains contested.
