1906 NY Gubernatorial Race:
The 1906 New York gubernatorial race was one for the ages: The current president stepping in for a future presidential candidate, a propaganda war, and …
1900-09
The Brownsville Raid of 1906: The Incident of the Black Soldiers of the 25th Infantry at Fort Brown, Texas
When the black soldiers of the 25th Infantry moved into Fort Brown, Texas, they arrived in a place that had already had problems with the …
The Persian Constitutional Revolution Results in the Establishment of the Constitutional Monarchy
August 5 is the anniversary of Iran’s 1905 Constitutional Revolution, although 1905 was the beginning of a process that led to the revolution’s victory in …
A Trip Down San Francisco’s Market Street 4 Days Before the Earthquake and Fire that Destroyed 80% of It
“Produced as part of the popular Hale’s Tours of the World film series, the film begins at the location of the Miles Brothers film studio, …
Moro Crater Massacre: 800 to 1,000 killed including women and children
The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Moro Crater Massacre, was a counterinsurgency action fought by the United States Army against the Moro people in March 1906, during the Moro Rebellion in …
Einstein Publishes his Paper on Special Relativity titled, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
This is perhaps the most famous idea falsely attributed to Einstein. Specifically, this 1905 paper dealt with what Einstein called the Special Theory of Relativity …
Santayana (in The Life of Reason, 1905): “Those Who Cannot Remember the Past are Condemned to Repeat It.”
Santayana (in The Life of Reason, 1905): “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The Life of Reason, subtitled “the Phases …
Theodore Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address
My fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in …
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, SCOTUS Upheld the Authority of States to Enforce Compulsory Vaccination Laws (Individual Liberty < Police Power of the State)
Massachusetts was one of only 11 states that had compulsory vaccination laws. Massachusetts law empowered the board of health of individual cities and towns to …
The Station for Experimental Evolution, a Eugenics Lab, Formerly Opens Funded by the Carnegie Institute of Washington
The Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers …