A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on the Jazz Age, a period in U.S. history associated with exuberance and the introduction of jazz music.

The strategy behind the Mellon Plan, introduced by the Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, was to lower taxes to free up money that could be then be invested in business to create jobs and improve the economy ensuring financial...

A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on Al "Scarface" Capone, the most famous of all the Prohibition Era gangsters.

A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on the Chicago Mafia who were part of the organized crime wave led by Al Capone during the Prohibition Era.

Comprehensive summary provides facts and information that relates how the Volstead Act, or National Prohibition Act, was enacted to enforce the 18th amendment on Prohibition.

A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information about the first talking motion picture, the movie studios, and movie stars.

A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information about the movement of African Americans from the southern farmlands to the northern cities.

Comprehensive summary provides facts and information that relates how the WWI Armistice (cessation of hostilities) ended the fighting on the Western Front in Europe.

Discover facts and interesting information about the history and construction of Central Park, Manhattan, New York.

Discover interesting facts and information about the Works Progress Administration established in April 1935 to provide light construction jobs for millions of unskilled workers.

Discover interesting facts and information about the Civilian Conservation Corps that was established to employ young men to work on conservation projects and was created as part of FDR's New Deal Programs.

Discover detailed facts and information about the goals, purpose and function, and the history and origins of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Discover interesting facts and information about the Unabomber, American anarchist Ted Kaczynsk, who was arrested on April 3, 1996.

Discover interesting facts and information about the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Interesting information, history, and facts on the Interstate Highway System that began a new road culture making travel faster, easier, and safer.

Discover interesting facts and information about the ecological disaster caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Discover interesting facts and information about Al-Qaeda, the international, radical Islamic group, famously led by Osama Bin Laden.

Detailed facts and information about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Red Tails, the first unit of African American military aviators in the US armed forces.

Discover the role of Navajo Code Talkers in WW2 through a summary and 27 detailed facts.

Interesting Battle of Midway timeline with details of significant times and important events that occurred on June 4, 1942.

A summary and detailed facts about D Day in WW2, June 6, 1944, and the landings on the beaches at Normandy.

Read interesting facts about the Banking Act of 1933, or the Glass-Steagall Act. It prohibited commercial banks from engaging in the investment business and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

Provides detailed facts and interesting information about the 2008 Financial Crisis (Credit Crunch) that triggered recession and depression across global economies.

Learn about the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)that was passed on February 05, 1993. It requires companies to provide workers with up to 12 weeks per year of unpaid leave for family and medical emergencies.