MR. HALL'S
AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS

A terrible blaze occurred at the Iroquois Theater on December 30, 1903, as a fire broke out in the crowded theater during a performance of a...

One of the America's most unusual wars involved only one casualty - a pig - and yet it could have changed the course of history. The biz...

John Wesley Hardin was born in Bonham, Texas, in 1853. He was the son of James Hardin, a Methodist preacher, and was named after John Wesley...

The seeds of the hysteria that afflicted Salem Village, Massachusetts, were sown in January 1692 when a group of young girls began to displa...

J. D. Tippit was born in Clarksville, Texas, in 1924. During the Second World War Tippit served in the Seventeenth Airborne Division of the ...

The Hennepin Canal in north-central Illinois was first conceived in 1834 as a connection between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers but fin...

Born in Vermont, Lt. Lyman Kidder was a son of politician and judge Jefferson P. Kidder. On June 29, 1867, Kidder, with an Indian scout and ...