In 1906, Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote a novel titled The Jungle. The book was the result of the author’s investigation into the lives and working conditions of stockyard workers in…
Historians generally view William McKinley as a president who tried to avoid war but who remained firm in his commitment once it was made. As the last president of the…
Joseph McCarthy rose to fame as a product of the second great Red scare, a period of extreme fear of communism in the United States. Because of his aggressive pursuit…
John McCain lost the Republican Party nomination for president in the 2000 election but won the nomination in the 2008 election. McCain was born into a military family in 1936…
In the early 1600s, a new religious movement was gaining momentum in England. Challenging the traditions of the Anglican Church, or Church of England, members of the movement sought to…
Louis B. Mayer was a cofounder of the Hollywood movie studio MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. For thirty years, he was the most powerful man in the motion picture industry. Escapes Russia Born Eliezer…
Cotton Mather was a Puritan clergyman in Boston, Massachusetts, in the colonial period. Born into the third generation of a New England founding family, he was educated at Harvard College…
In 1629, the English Crown granted a royal charter to the Massachusetts Bay Company giving the company rights to colonize and trade in the area of New England between the…
Massachusetts was admitted into the Union on February 6, 1788, as the sixth state. It is located in the northeastern United States and is bordered by Rhode Island, Connecticut, New…
Maryland officially joined the Union on April 28, 1788, as the seventh state. Located on the eastern seaboard in the South Atlantic region, it is bordered by Virginia, West Virginia,…