20th Century

2+ hour, 43+ min ago   (231+ words) Jones answered the captain of HMS Serapis off Flamborough Head on 23 September 1779, with his own ship burning. The line reaches us through one officer who wrote it down years later....

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (708+ words) In brief: A self-taught Ukrainian helped the Americans land on the Moon and Soviet scientists were left kicking themselves. He also calculated the optimal Earth-Moon trajectory for a spaceship and mathematically substantiated the concept of using a gravitational maneuver. Four…...

6+ hour, 14+ min ago   (293+ words) Eisenhower had enormous formal authority and believed cooperation could not be ordered into existence. He described leadership instead as persuasion, conciliation, education and patience....

7+ hour, 17+ min ago   (106+ words) A photo exhibition imagines the life 14-year-old Emmett Till might have lived if he had not been murdered more than 70 years ago....

10+ hour, 46+ min ago   (374+ words) Alumni from Birmingham City Schools born in 1963 came together at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to commemorate the events of that transformative year and reflect on the Civil Rights Movement's impact on Birmingham and the nation. Attendees highlighted 1963 as a…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (496+ words) Teddy Roosevelt gave the line at the Naval War College in July 1897, in a speech he titled "Washington's Forgotten Maxim." The maxim was George Washington's, delivered to Congress in January 1790....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (36+ words) Battleship USS Wisconsin came out of mothballs in 1988, more than thirty years after her last active service in Korea. Seven of her eight boilers were down when the fuel line to the last one ruptured....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (256+ words) Daily Kos This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Eighty-five years ago, Emmett Till was born in Chicago and lived only 14 years before he was abducted and lynched while visiting family in Mississippi....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (232+ words) By Jason Robertson, Public Affairs Officer In recognition of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the Syracuse VA Medical Center had the privilege of honoring 104-year-old World War II Veteran and former Prisoner of War John Shott, recognizing his extraordinary service,…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (350+ words) The first untethered balloon flight took place on Nov. 21, 1783, with the first military use occurring during the French Revolutionary Wars. A century later during the Franco-Prussian War, the French again deployed observation balloons—and when Prussian troops besieged Paris, they…...