The Battle of Carrhae (Latin pronunciation: [ˈkarrae̯]) was fought in 53 BC between the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire near the ancient town of Carrhae (present-day Harran, Turkey).…
The West’s Thailand
The U.S.-Thai alliance benefits both our nations and supports peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific. The first documented contact between the United States…
America’s Stonehenge – 4,000 years ago
America’s Stonehenge is a privately owned tourist attraction and archaeological site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around…
Sweatt v. Painter (1950) – Texas school integration
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the “separate but equal” doctrine of…
Racist Southern Manifesto – March 12, 1956
On this date, Howard Smith of Virginia, chairman of the House Rules Committee, introduced the Southern Manifesto in a speech on the House Floor.…
Separate but equal – segregated by “race”
Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to…
Lawrence Massacre – Quantrill’s raid
The Lawrence Massacre, also known as Quantrill’s raid, was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill’s Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on…
“biggest expansion of gun rights” by Supreme Court
In a major expansion of gun rights after a series of mass shootings, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a…
First Amendment Protect Lying?
Does the First Amendment protect lying? Depending upon the context, the answer is either “no,” “yes,” or “maybe.” It is…
U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
The U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade on Friday, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly a half…
‘Independent State Legislature Theory’
There’s a thread that links the partisan gerrymandering of congressional maps in North Carolina, attempts to dissolve the Wisconsin Election…
More than 100 civilians killed in Mali attacks
Government says 132 people killed as armed group attacks villages in in Mali’s central Mopti region. More than 100 civilians…
Israel’s prime minister is stepping down
Israel’s most diverse government in history, formed for the first time with an Arab political party, is disbanding over a…
how emancipated people were kept unfree
The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word…
230 killed in attack in Ethiopia
Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 people, mostly ethnic Amhara, have been killed in an attack in…
The Page Act of 1875
The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 3 March 1875) was the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States, which effectively…
Gulag – Russian Concentration Camps
Gulag, acronym of Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-Trudovykh Lagerey, (Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”), system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps…
The Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society (SFASS)
The Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society (SFASS) was founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1832. It was established by and for free…
Harriet Robinson Scott
Harriet Robinson Scott (c. 1820 – June 17, 1876) was an African American woman who fought for her freedom alongside her…
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family, a religious family,…
Michael Ruark 