civil rights activistBorn: 10/6/1917Birthplace: Ruleville, Miss. Hamer was the youngest of 20 children and began working with her sharecropper parents at age 6. She left school after the sixth grade…
BARLETTA, Lou, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pa., January 28, 1956; graduated from Hazleton High School, Hazleton, Pa., 1974; attended Bloomsburg University,…
An illustrated guide to the first ladies of the United States
Please note: Martha Jefferson, Rachel Jackson, Hannah Hoes Van Buren, and Ellen Arthur all died before their husbands became president…
ROTHERMEL, John Hoover, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pa., March 7, 1856; attended the common schools and pursued an academic course at Brunnerâ…
(Encyclopedia) Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, at Stanford, Calif. It was established in 1919 as the Hoover War Library by Herbert Hoover to extend his collection of documents of…
The Question: Which president promised "a chicken in every pot"? The Answer: It wasn't just chicken. During the presidential campaign of 1928, a circular…
(Encyclopedia) Bonus Marchers, in U.S. history, more than 20,000 veterans, most of them unemployed and in desperate financial straits, who, in the spring of 1932, spontaneously made their way to…
