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)
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)
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)
An article about Wiley Post becoming the first person to fly solo around the world, on 22 July 1933... (Read More)
In this article – to help celebrate the Fourth of July – Jane Hampton Cook writes about the figure of Columbia, long used as a symbol for America... (Read More)
An article about the gleaming new Golden Gate Bridge being opened to vehicular traffic on 28 May 1937, linking San Francisco to northern California... (Read More)
Exactly what was the Mayflower Compact? Discover how it began and whether your ancestors were a part of this historic moment... (Read More)
An article about American Harriet Quimby, who on 16 April 1912 became the first woman to fly across the English Channel, in a 50-horsepower monoplane!.. (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about some of the other victims of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on 14 April 1865... (Read More)
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