MR. HALL'S
AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS

In 1859 four prospectors discovered gold in a shallow California valley north of Mono Lake where tales of riches had drawn them fr...

William H. Carney was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was a member of Company C, 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry. On July 1...

Nearly sixteen months after the end of the Civil War, Section 3 of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to Increase and Fix the Mi...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre, located about 35 miles southwest of Cedar City, Utah, was the killing on September 11, 1857, of roughly...

Alvin Cullum York ended the First World War as one of America's most famous soldiers, with fame and popular recognition assured foll...

Francis H. Pierpont was a lawyer, early coal industrialist, governor of the Restored government of Virginia during the Civil War, gove...

Meyer Lansky is one of the legendary figures of 20th century organized crime in America. Lansky was born Meyer Suchowljansky in 1902 i...