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1 day ago · This period of rapid economic growth and soaring prosperity in the Northern United States and the Western United States saw the U.S. become the world's dominant economic, industrial, and agricultural power. The average annual income (after inflation) of non-farm workers grew by 75% from 1865 to 1900, and then grew another 33% by 1918.
3 hours ago · Overview and definition "Modernism" is a cultural movement that impacts both the arts and the broader zeitgeist. It is commonly described as a system of thought and behavior marked by self-consciousness or self-reference, prevalent within the avant-garde of various arts and disciplines.
1 day ago · On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected as the first African American president of the United States. On January 20, 2009, Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States in a ceremony attended by nearly 2 million people, the largest congregation of spectators ever to witness the inauguration of a new president.
- January 8, 1828
1 day ago · Illustration representing Cecil Rhodes' plan of building railways across Africa, connecting Cape Town and Cairo, aimed at extending the British Empire. Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural ...
1 day ago · Devermont, Judd. "World Is Coming to Sub-Saharan Africa. Where Is the United States?" (Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 2018) online. Duignan, P., and L. H. Gann. The United States and Africa: A History (Cambridge University Press, 1984) Fage, J.D. and Roland Oliver, eds. The Cambridge History of Africa (8 vol 1975–1986)
1 day ago · In 2016, they were sentenced to pay more than US$292,000 in legal fees. The case was reopened again in 2021, but closed again in January 2022, with the Lowndes County Sheriff finding his death to be an accident when re-reviewing some 17 boxes of evidence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's findings. James Campbell 14 January 2013
3 hours ago · As of July 1, 2022, United States Census Bureau estimates that 75.8% of the US population were white alone, while Non-Hispanic whites were 59.3% of the population. For these population estimates, the 15.1% who identified as "Some Other Race" in 2020 were redistributed into other racial categories, with most of them reclassified as white alone.
