American History

LSD The hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was discovered by the Sandoz drug and chemical corporation in 1943, and...

The Pentagon Papers was a forty-seven-volume Pentagon study into U.S. involvement in Vietnam. It was commissioned by the then secretary of...

Pearl Harbor On Sunday, 7 December 1941, at 7:55 A.M. the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States Pacif...

Alan J. Pakula Filmmaker Alan J. Pakula (1928–1998) is best known for his direction of films that have been collectively termed the “pa...

Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald (1939–1963) has been U.S. “Public Enemy #1” ever since his posthumous conviction in the court of po...

One-World Government Many Americans, often those associated with extreme right-wing groups and fundamentalist Christian churches, belie...