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The Spanish Flu Didn’t Originate in Spain

The Spanish Flu Didn't Originate in Spain

Pandemics have been on everyone's mind lately, and in these uneasy times, many people are looking to the past for ...

More Americans used to vote in midterm elections than presidential elections

https://youtu.be/SDPTFSwrv1w Here's a surprising fact about US history: more Americans used to vote in midterm ...

The First Woman US State Senator Defeated Her Polygamist Husband in the Election

Utah State Senator Martha Hughes Cannon with daughter Mattie

Despite having a conservative reputation, Utah was the first state to elect a female State Senator in 1896. In the ...

The US Once Stripped American Women of Citizenship if They Married Immigrants

Imagine accidentally losing your citizenship... simply because of the person you got married to! In the early 20th ...

The creator of Mother’s Day wished she could un-create it because it became too commercial

Meet Anna Jarvis, the creator of Mother's Day. She was a committed peace activist, having cared for both American and ...

1950s American Students Wore Dog Tags to School

1950s School Children Wore Dog Tags

People who grew up in the 1950s agree that the world is a very different place now. Back then, children walked to ...