This 18th century conflict between England and Spain was named for a British seaman's body part:

These two states ceded land to the federal government to form the District of Columbia in 1791.

The sharp but short 1857-58 financial panic in the U.S. was touched off by this.

Prizefighter James J. &#171Gentleman Jim» Corbett beat this man to win the world heavyweight championship in 1892.

This was the name given to experimental suburban communities for low-income city workers created by the Resettlement Administration during the Great Depression.

For what cause was clergyman and newspaper editor Elijah P. Lovejoy martyred?

The Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, was passed by Congress in this year.

During the Civil War, this officer rode a gelding named Rienzi.