On Sunday morning, December 7th, 1941, the Japanese launched a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor that decimated the US Pacific Fleet and forced the United …
Louis McFadden introduced House Resolution No. 158, Articles of Impeachment against the Secretary of the Treasury, two Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve …
It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at …
John Hylan’s most famous statement against “the interests” was the following speech, made in 1922, while he was the sitting Mayor of New York City …
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of …
Since its founding in 1908, the bureau has rarely let either the statute book or the Constitution impede its public service. The FBI was born …
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 Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers …
Today, employment with the United States government is much like employment in the private sector. However, this has not always been the case. Until 1883, …
Lord Acton wrote to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1881: “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” His name’s way cooler than …
