Tag: United States of America

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)

Last Revolutionary War Widow Receives Final Pension—in 1906!

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on July 19, 2012

Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary writes about the last Revolutionary War pension being paid in 1906—131 years after armed conflict began between Great Britain and its American colonies. It seems hard to believe, but the last Revolutionary War pension... (Read More)