Historic Events

The United States has a long and diverse history of protests and strikes to represent the everyday man and woman. Protests of the past century range from labor strikes in the 19th century that resulted in people being shot by law enforcement, housewives protesting the high price of food in 1917, garbage workers refusing to haul garbage in 1911, political prisoners in the U.S in 1922, protesters against the passage of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) which would have guaranteed women equal civil rights in the 1970's... The list goes on and on, and these photos are but a snapshot of some of these demonstrations and protests from the past.

"It's not easy being green" - Kermit the frog. We could just as well say "it's not easy being a woman", at least a woman in the past. These images contain the faces of powerful women who worked to change the world, change their own lives, help others, and labored with power and courage fighting for civil rights. These women employed their talents and abilities without many of the privileges and rights that we have today. How much more can we do today, thanks to their efforts yesterday?

The truth about Daniel Boone's hat, a Vice Presidential candidate who pardoned a witch, living descendants of a pre-Civil War President, the last Civil War widow died in 2003. . . what we consider as historical facts often isn't true. Which of the following did you know and what surprises you? Did you know that toilets that flush date back to the 26th century BCE, but pre-sliced bread is less than a hundred years old?

From the early 1930s through 1940, the Great Plains of the United States and Canada were devastated by dust storms, causing great economic and social anguish. Just mention the term 'Dust Bowl' and your mind immediately goes to the severe dust storms that impacted the American and Canadian prairies of the 1930s. Many farmers left their family farms and simply picked up and moved, leaving everything behind. When you see what these people faced and how they endured, you might begin to understand why.