This Week In American History
This Week In American History: April 7th - 13th
April 7 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggested the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create...
This Week In American History: March 31st - April 6th
March 31 1931 Brilliant Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne (43) and seven others were killed when the wings of their plane broke apart while en route from Kansas City...
This Week In American History: March 24th - March 30th
March 24 1965 The first “teach-in” was conducted at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; two hundred faculty members participate by holding special anti-war seminars. Regular classes were canceled,...
This Week In American History: March 17th - March 23rd
March 17 1776 British forces were forced to evacuate Boston following General George Washington’s successful placement of fortifications and cannons on Dorchester Heights, which overlooked the city from the south....
This Week In American History: March 10th - March 16th
March 10 1876 The first discernible speech was transmitted over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by saying the now famous...
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...