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John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing commanded the American Expeditionary Force (aka AEF) in Europe during WW1. A mediocre student but a natural leader, John Pershing was president and the first captain of the West Point class of 1886. -
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Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding was the 29th President of the United States. Harding was from Ohio and served in the Ohio Senate and then in the US Senate, -
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Glenn Curtiss
Curtiss began his career as a Western Union bicycle messenger, a bicycle racer, and bicycle shop owner. Curtiss began manufacturing motorcycles with his own single-cylinder engines. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, to a prominent New York family He attended Groton School and Harvard College, graduating in 1903. -
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Marcus Garvey
In 1910 Marcus left Jamaica and began traveling throughout the Central American region. His first stop was Costa Rica, where he had a maternal uncle -
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Avlin C. York
Known as the greatest [American] hero of World War I, York avoided profiting from his war record before 1939. York was the third oldest of a family of eleven children, the York family eked out a hardscrabble existence of subsistence farming supplemented by hunting, and York became a competent marksman at an early age. -
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Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was named Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn at birth. She dropped her middle name and assumed her mother's maiden name after her father abandoned the family when she was 12 years old, one of two traumatic incidents early in her life. -
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Jazz Music
Born in the South, the blues is an African American-derived music form that recognized the pain of lost love and injustice and gave expression to the victory of outlasting a broken heart and facing down adversity. -
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes -
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Charles Lindbergh
An American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Lindbergh campaigned against voluntary American involvement in World War II. -
Sussex Pledge
Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. -
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The Great Migration
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 United States. -
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Red Scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Battle of the Argonne Forest was part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive planned by General Ferdinand Foch. The offensive called for a three-pronged attack on the Germans at the Western Front. -
Red Scare
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Treaty of Versailles
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Treaty of versailles
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. -
Dust Bowl
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Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem Renaissance
During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
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The Great Depression
The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. -
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The Dust Bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later.
