On This Day: USS Maine explodes, sparks Spanish-American War
On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...
History Today: Did you know the world’s first teddy bear was inspired by a US president?
Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an ...
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‘Ancestral Call’ at 1978 Arts Center Provides Fitting Launch to Black History Month
The creation of this art exhibition is the subject of the NAACP Image Award-nominated PBS American Masters Series documentary ...
Little Havana used to look like that? See the old pictures from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s
Little Havana got its name from the hundreds of thousands of Cubans who fled their homeland between the late 1950s and early 1970s and settled in what originally was a lower-middle-class Southern and ...