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Memorial Day

Take a look at the holiday marking the official beginning of summer and America’s most solemn occasion.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Origins of AAPI Heritage Month The effort to officially recognize Asian American and Pacific Islander contributions to the United States began in the late 1970s, and took over 10 years to make it a permanent month‑long celebration. In 1977, New York representative Frank Horton introduced House Joint Resolution 540, which proposed proclaiming the first 10 […]

10up Meets about TDIH

What a great meeting!

21st CENTURY

Great Recession

What Is A Recession? A recession is a decline or stagnation in economic growth, but the economic indicators used to define the term “recession” have changed over time. Since the Great Recession, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has described a “global recession” as a decline in real per‑capita world gross domestic product (GDP), as supported […]

2021 Events

COVID‑19’s Continued Toll As the year began, the nation was still firmly in the grip of COVID‑19, the novel coronavirus that first emerged in late December 2019 and spread around the world in 2020, prompting lockdowns, a global recession and upheaval on an unprecedented scale. In what became a record for the fastest vaccine development […]

Afghanistan War

War on Terror Begins Investigators determined the 9/11 attacks—in which terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, crashing two into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, one at the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., and one in a Pennsylvania field—were orchestrated by terrorists working from Afghanistan, which was under the control of the Taliban, an […]