America started the 1800s bursting with the energy of a new nation. Each decade’s developments exceeded the ones before it. Business, politics, geography, culture – all pulsated with progress. But with these changes, came
We’ve all heard the expression “let’s take a selfie!” at one point or another. This phrase has become as common as “a roll of the dice” or “don’t judge a book by its cover”
For Patsy Takemoto Mink, the halls of Congress were a long way from her birth on a Maui sugar plantation. The granddaughter of working-class Japanese immigrants, Patsy was born when Hawaii was just a
America in the 1830s was a nation on the move. As citizens began developing western lands and spreading into new territories, the need to cultivate land for agricultural purposes became paramount. Unlike the sandy