Civil Rights Act Signed: How President Lyndon Johnson Ended Legal Segregation and Transformed America on July 2, 1964

On the evening of July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson walked into the East Room of the White House dressed in a black suit and tie and sat down at a wooden desk in the ce

Amelia Earhart Disappears: The Untold Story of the Final Flight, the Pacific Silence, and the Mystery That Has Endured for Almost a Century

At 8:43 in the morning on July 2, 1937, the United States Coast Guard cutter Itasca, stationed near the tiny coral atoll of Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean, received th

Garfield Shot: How a Delusional Office Seeker Shot President James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881, and Set America on the Path to Civil Service Reform

At 9:30 in the morning on Saturday, July 2, 1881, President James A. Garfield walked through the ladies’ waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washing

Independence Vote: How the Continental Congress Declared the Thirteen Colonies Free and Independent States on July 2, 1776

On the afternoon of July 2, 1776, in the assembly room of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, twelve of the thirteen colonial delegations to the Second Continental Congre

Battle of Marston Moor: How Parliamentarians and Scottish Covenanters Crushed the Royalists on July 2, 1644 and Broke the King’s Grip on Northern England

As a summer thunderstorm broke over the flat expanse of Marston Moor, seven miles west of York, on the evening of July 2, 1644, the fate of the English Civil War in the north was d

Hong Kong Handover: How Britain Returned 156 Years of Colonial Rule to China at the Stroke of Midnight on July 1, 1997

At the stroke of midnight between June 30 and July 1, 1997, in the cavernous new wing of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, the last notes of God Save the

Canada Confederation: How the Dominion of Canada Was Born on July 1, 1867 and Changed the History of the British Empire

On July 1, 1867, the Dominion of Canada came into existence, not through revolution or war, but through a decade of political negotiation, constitutional compromise, and diplomatic

Battle of Gettysburg Begins: How Three Days in Pennsylvania Became the Bloodiest Battle in American History and the Turning Point of the Civil War

Before the sun had fully risen over the rolling farmlands of Adams County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of July 1, 1863, the course of the American Civil War began to shift. Confed