This Week In American History
This Week In American History: March 3rd - March 9th
March 3 1845 Congress reins in President John Tyler’s zealous use of the presidential veto, overriding it with the necessary two-thirds vote. This marked Congress’ first use of the Constitutional...
This Week In American History: February 25th - March 2nd
February 25 1836 Samuel Colt received US patent number 138 for a “revolving gun," later known as 9430X. His improvement in fire-arm design allowed a gun to be fired...
This Week In American History: February 18th - February 24th
February 18 1885 Mark Twain published his famous—and famously controversial—novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his...
This Week In American History: February 11th - February 17th
February 11 1916 Emma Goldman, a crusader for women’s rights and social justice, was arrested in New York City for lecturing and distributing materials about birth control. She was...
This Week In American History: February 4th - February 10th
February 4 1789 George Washington, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was unanimously elected the first president of the United States by all 69 presidential...
This Week In American History: January 28th - February 3rd
January 28 1915 President Woodrow Wilson signed the Coast Guard Act of 1915, which merged the Revenue Cutter Service with the U.S. Life-Saving Service, and was officially renamed the...
This Week In American History: January 21st - January 27th
January 21 1950 In the conclusion to one of the most spectacular trials in U.S. history, former State Department official Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury. He was convicted of...
This Week In American History: January 14th - January 20th
January 14 1954 Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio. It was the ultimate All-American romance: the tall, handsome hero of the country’s national pastime captures the heart of the beautiful,...
This Week In American History: January 7th - January 13th
January 7 1927 The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team travelled 48 miles west from Chicago to play their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. The Globetrotters were the creation of Abe Saperstein...
This Week In American History: December 31st - January 6th
December 31 1879 In the first public demonstration of his incandescent lightbulb, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison lit up a street in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Although the first incandescent...
This Week In American History: December 24th - December 30th
December 24 1812 The Treaty of Ghent was signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium, ending the War of 1812. By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory...
This Week In American History: December 17th - December 23rd
December 17 1892 Arthur Baldwin Turnure first publishes Vogue, a new magazine dedicated to “the ceremonial side of life” and targeted at “the sage as well as the debutante, men...