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John J. Pershing
He was born on September 13, 1860, in Laclede, Missouri. He was the general in the United States Army wholed the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, 1917-18. On July 15, 1948, he died of coronary artey disease and congestive heart failure at the Walter Reed General Hospital, in Washington, D.C., which was his home after 1944. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, near the grave sites of the soldiers the commanded in Europe, after a state funeral. -
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Warren G. Harding
He was born on November 2, 1865, in Blooming Grove, Ohio, U.S. He was the 29th President of the United States from March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923. He's a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the U.S. Senate, where he played a minor role. Unexpectedly, during the evening, he shuddered and died suddenly in the middle of conversation with his wife in the hotel's presidential suite, at 7:35 p.m. on August 2, 1923. -
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Glenn Curtiss
He was born on May 21, 1878, in Hammondsport, New York. He was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. Traveling to Rochester, New York to contest a lawsuit brought by former business partner, August Herring, Curtiss suffered an attack of appendictics in court. He died July 23, 1930 in Buffalo, New York, of complications from an appendectomy. -
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Frankiln D. Roosevelt
He was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, USA. He was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. A Democrat, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. He died on April 12, 1945 at 3:35p.m. due to cerebal hemorrhage (stroke). -
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Marcus Garvey
He was born on August 17, 1887, in Sanit Ann's Bay, Jamaica. He was a Jamaican politicial leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator whowas a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He died in London on June 10, 1940 at age 52 after suffering two strokes. -
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Alvin C. York
He was born on December 13, 1887, known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others. He died at the Veterans Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 2, 1964, of a cerebal hemorrhage. -
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Dorothea Lange
He was born on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey. She was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). She died of esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965 in San Francisco, California at age 70. She was survived by her second husband, Paul Taylor, two children, three stepchildren, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. -
Jazz Music
Jazz was born in New Orleans about 100 years ago (early 20th century), but its roots can be found in the musical traditions of both Africa and Europe. In fact, some people say that jazz is a union of African and European music. -
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Langston Hughes
He was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, USA. He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. On May 22, 1967, Hughes died from complications after adbominal surgery, related to prostate cancer, at the age of 65. His ashes are interred beneath a floor medallion in the middle of the foyer in the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. -
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Charlez Lindbergh
He was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan. He's an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. He spent his final years on Hawaiian island of Maui, where he died of lymphoma on August 26, 1974. -
Harlem Renaissance
The first stage of the Harlem Renaissance started in the late 1910s. In 1917, the premiere of Three Plays for a Negro Theatre took place. These plays, written by white playwright Ridgely Torrence, featured African-American actors conveying complex human emotions and yearnings. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the U.S. It was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration (1910–1930), numbering about 1.6 million migrants. -
Sussex Pledge
The German government responded with the so-called Sussex pledge (May 4, 1916), agreeing to give adequate warning before sinking merchant and passenger ships and to provide for the safety of passengers and crew. The pledge was upheld until February 1917, when unrestricted submarine warfare was resumed. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. The battle was the largest in United States military history, involving 1.2 million American soldiers, and was one of a series of Allied attacks known as the Hundred Days Offensive. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
The Great Depression
Economic historians usually attribute the start of the Great Depression to the sudden devastating collapse of US stock market prices on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday; some dispute this conclusion, and see the stock crash as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
Its also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon. -
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The New Deal
It was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
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Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare.
