In honor of Pride Month, as well as the release of our new LGBTQ+ Rights database, this month’s Secrets of the Serial Set post will dive into the Lavender Scare of the 1950s, when the government sought to purge gay civil servants from government.
With the issue of slavery at the forefront, the Lincoln-Douglas debates were the first political debates to receive nationwide attention, becoming public attractions that drew crowds of thousands of people and shaped politics for decades to come.
On September 3, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at an all-time high of 381.17. Americans were living large. However, less than two months later, all of this would come to a screeching half with the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
With the Senate recently passing the Sunshine Protection Act, which proposes year-round daylight savings time, we thought it would be a great time to dive into the complex and often confusing history of humankind’s desire to preserve daylight.
Even though all-out war was officially over, the world was anything at peace in the aftermath of World War II. The United States feared the spread of communism in a weakened Europe. The tensions culminated in the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty.
Learn about the life of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to hold federal office in the United States, elected to Congress before women had the right to vote.
Join us as we use the extensive resources within HeinOnline, including our Women and the Law (Peggy) database, to explore the history of the ERA and where it stands today—just in time for Women’s History Month.
March is Women’s History Month, but the fight for gender equality in the United States is ongoing. While we continue to work towards a more equitable future, it’s the perfect time to review some milestone moments in the women’s rights movement.
In honor of Black History Month, this Secret of the Serial Set dives into a piece of legislation that was a milestone in the civil rights movement: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964.
HeinOnline contains the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, a must-have publication for anyone studying American history. To make this content more discoverable, we have created lookup tools found directly on the U.S. Congressional Serial Set homepage.
