Saint Augustine (Florida) is the oldest European settlement occupied today in the continental part of the present territory of the United States. It was founded by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28, 1565, and not for colonial or economic reasons, but military ones. Spain located a military conti
Starting this month, with the appointment of Joe Biden as President of the United States, his wife Jill Biden will follow in the footsteps of remarkable women who, for centuries, have shaped the complex and often controversial role of First Lady. Too often forgotten, they are given center stage in t
The frontier of the Americas as seen by whites disappeared in the 1890s. Still, the theory of expansion does not stop, and the United States will expand overseas in search of further territory. William McKinley is a president who symbolizes such American imperialism. The Last Civil War President
The movie The Untouchables by Eliot Ness tells the story of the man who against all odds got the gangster Americas most famous man, Al Capone, will end his days in Alcatraz prison. But there was another man who spent years in New York persecuting organized crime, who also managed to put several of