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One of the classic images in modern film is from Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington from 1939, when Jimmy Stewart’s…
The Stamp Act Congress met on this day in New York in 1765, a meeting that led nine Colonies to declare the English Crown had no…
After an intense blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court term, like the one just ended, the justices often have opted for a low key term.…
The date of September 13, 1788 isn’t celebrated as a major anniversary in American history, but it was a big day in the creation…
On June 17, 1972, police caught five men breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in…
On May 28, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an important part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s NIRA plan, when the…
On May 11, 1894, several thousand train workers started an unannounced strike at the Pullman Company in Illinois. Over the next…
On this day in 1789, the First Congress under our current Constitution met in its first joint session in New York and undertook an…
At first glance, climate change and vaccine mandates seem to have nothing in common, but the two are linked in a U.S. Supreme…
With the official announcement of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court after its current term, all…
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