Atlanta Falls: How Sherman’s Capture of Atlanta Turned the Civil War on September 2, 1864

On the morning of September 2, 1864, Atlanta Mayor James M. Calhoun rode out with a small delegation to meet the advancing Union forces. He carried a formal note of surrender: R

US Treasury Created: How Congress Established the Department of the Treasury on September 2, 1789

On September 2, 1789, the First Congress of the United States passed an act creating the Department of the Treasury, the third executive department of the new federal government. P

Great Fire of London: How a Baker’s Oven Burned the Medieval City to the Ground in 1666

Shortly after midnight on Sunday, September 2, 1666, a fire broke out at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane in the City of London, near London Bridge. The Farriner famil