by Matilda Cruz | Sep 25, 2023 | History
On this day in history, William Cuthbert Faulkner, a renowned American novelist, was born in Mississippi. Faulkner’s unique writing style, which combined the “stream of consciousness” technique with symbolism and settings that mirrored his Southern American...
by Matilda Cruz | Sep 24, 2023 | History
In 1979, the Iranian Revolution, a series of events that led to the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty and the establishment of an Islamic republic, toppled the secular monarchy that had ruled the country, replacing it with a new, religious government. Nearby Iraq saw...
by Matilda Cruz | Sep 23, 2023 | History
Today, former President Richard Nixon is mostly known for the Watergate scandal that drove him from office. However, this wasn’t the first political scandal he was involved in. In 1952, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President, and during the run-up to...
by Matilda Cruz | Sep 22, 2023 | History
Most Americans are taught in school that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation, issued at the start of 1863. However, that was actually the second Emancipation Proclamation. The first one, the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a...
by Matilda Cruz | Sep 21, 2023 | History
The Hobbit was published on September 21, 1937, forever changing the fantasy genre. The genre had been around since at least the previous century, but Tolkien considered it a juvenile, non-serious form of writing. After The Hobbit (and its sequel series, The Lord of...
