. … I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill.” . During World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower forbade racism and made the decision to arm black American soldiers with weapons. ..…

View World War I: A Resource Guide for materials including photographs, documents, newspapers, films, sheet music, and sound recordings. This guide compiles links to World War I resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site as well as links to..…

Today History, July 28, 1914 World War I began. One mid-September, 1914, near Berry-au-bae, France, German scouting party stumbled on French in clearing near Argonne forest. ..…

After heading the federal Food Administration during World War I, Hoover concluded, in the words of Jim Powell, author of FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression,“that the vast power of the U.S. government could do wonders during an..…

After the Civil War and moving towards the Twentieth Century, this post-millennial evangelicalism faded with the aftermath of World War I. After witnessing the devastation of the war,  few theologians believed that the world would continue to improve..…

Within this framework, Ankara exploited the civil war to gain a foot-hold in Syria's northern part—a longstanding goal dating back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the post-World War I redrawing of the Middle East's borders. ... For a while, it seemed that the..…