Photo: Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches, 2 September 1945. Credit: Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: Japan Surrendered, Ending WWII

By Tony Pettinato on September 2, 2020

An article about the formal surrender ceremony of Japan in Tokyo Bay on the deck of the U.S. battleship Missouri on 2 September 1945, ending WWII... (Read More)

Photo: unemployed men standing in line outside a depression-era soup kitchen in Chicago, 1931. Credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration; Wikimedia Commons.

1930s Facts: Pop Culture & Historical Trivia

By GenealogyBank on August 27, 2020

The 1930s weren’t as decadent as the 1920s, but the time period was just as significant. Learn more today with GenealogyBank’s historical newspapers!.. (Read More)

Illustration: "Where There's Smoke There's Fire" by Russell Patterson, showing a fashionably dressed flapper in the 1920s. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

1920s Facts: Interesting & Important Historical Events

By GenealogyBank on August 24, 2020

For many people, the 1920s were an exciting time. After all, it wasn’t called the “Roaring Twenties” for nothing! Learn more today with GenealogyBank!.. (Read More)

Photo: "Silent Sentinels" begin a 2 1⁄2-year campaign in front of the White House for women's suffrage, 1917. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

100 Years Ago: The Tennessee Hero behind the Headlines of the 19th Amendment

By Jane Cook on August 18, 2020

To celebrate today being the 19th Amendment’s 100th anniversary, Jane Hampton Cook writes about a key moment in the fight to give women voting rights... (Read More)

Photo: the Opha May Johnson monument, St. Paul’s Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., was unveiled on 29 August 2018. Credit: Lance Cpl. Paul Ochoa of U.S. Marines; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: First Woman Joined U.S. Marine Corps – in 1918!

By Tony Pettinato on August 13, 2020

An article about Opha Johnson, who became the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps when she joined the Marine Corps Reserve on 13 August 1918... (Read More)

Photo: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and the United States, or "Harris Treaty," 29 July 1858. Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan). Credit: World Imaging; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: U.S. Forced Japan to Open Its Ports to American Trade

By Tony Pettinato on July 29, 2020

After 200 years of shielding itself from the outside world, Japan was forced by a U.S. treaty to end its policy of seclusion on 29 July 1858... (Read More)

Photo: "Winnie Mae," Wiley Post's Lockheed Vega airplane, when it was on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 29 January 2008. Credit: Jarek Tuszyński; Wikimedia Commons.

Wiley Post: First Solo Flight around the World, in 1933

By Tony Pettinato on July 22, 2020

An article about Wiley Post becoming the first person to fly solo around the world, on 22 July 1933... (Read More)

Photo: "Burning of Stamp Act, Boston" from a postcard, 1903. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Ancestor’s Outrageous Bar Bill Shows Extent of Stamp Act Protests & Drinking

By Melissa Berry on July 20, 2020

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a riotous night of drinking in September 1765 while protesting the Stamp Act. .. (Read More)

Photo: (L to R) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry S. Truman, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin in the garden of Cecilienhof Palace before meeting for the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany, 25 July 1945. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration.

Uneasy Alliance of the ‘Big Three’ at WWII’s Potsdam Conference

By Tony Pettinato on July 16, 2020

On 16 July 1945, leaders of the “Big Three” allied countries were in Potsdam, Germany, preparing for the next day’s start of the Potsdam Conference... (Read More)

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