MR. HALL'S
AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS
Thursday, September 1, 2011
The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
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John Brown was not a timid man. A devout reader of the Bible, he found human bondage immoral and unthinkable. The father of 20 childre...
Fort Leavenworth
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Fort Leavenworth, Ka...
The U-2 Spy Incident
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Following World War II, the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union grew increasingly wary. Russia did not agree to...
David Farragut
(July 5, 1801 - August 14, 1870)
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David Farragut was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1801. As a child he was adopted by Commodore David Porter of the U.S. Navy. Farragu...
Frances Perkins
(April 10, 1880 - May 14, 1965)
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Frances Perkins was born in Boston in 1880. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, she worked as a social worker in Worcester an...
The Drake Well
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The most important oil well ever drilled was in the middle of quiet farm country near Titusville in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859....
The Freedmen's Bureau
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On March 4, 1865, the U.S. government created a temporary federal agency - the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands- to...
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