(12) Bruno Hauptmann vs. Charles Lindbergh (1934) In 1927, the headlines screamed the news that Charles Augustus Lindbergh had flown across the Atlantic Ocean. On May 20, 1927, Lindbergh took off from the Roosevelt Field in New York, on a plane named the Spirit of St. Louis. He crossed the Atla...

The Silent Rebellion On the morning of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner and his followers rose in rebellion against the master class. The mob killed the family to whom Turner belonged and rampaged through Southampton killing nearly sixty whites (Stampp 278). Why was this rebellion one of the few ...

Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867 on a Lousiana plantation, she was a daughter of former slaves. This young woman had transformed herself from an uneducated farm laborer and laundress into one of the most successful women in the 12th century. Even though she was orphaned at the age of ...