Reducing cholera in New York required money, infrastructure, leadership, and empathy.
Michael Keenan Gutierrez
UNC’s Silent Sam and Honoring the Confederacy
The statue, dedicated to UNC students and alumni who fought for the Confederacy, was spray-painted with the words “Black Lives Matter,” “Murderer,” and “KKK.”
The Trial and Execution of Ruth Blay
On the morning of June 14th, 1768, a group of young girls converged on Benjamin Clough’s barn, a makeshift schoolhouse in South Hampton, New Hampshire.
The Orchard Keeper turns 50
Most Americans became familiar with Cormac McCarthy after he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2007 to talk about his Pulitzer Prize winning book The Road.
The Sinking of the Lusitania
On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, a German U-Boat captained by Walther von Schweiger spotted a four-stacked ocean liner off the coast of Ireland.