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Louisiana Territory Takeover

1/28/2015

France officially transferred ownership of the southern part of the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. on December 20, 1803 and the northern part on March 9, 1804.

David Dary, The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), 48.

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In response to complaints that three airline companies had been unfairly awarded air-mail contracts by President Herbert Hoover’s Postmaster General, President Franklin Roosevelt canceled the contracts and had the Army’s Air Corp carry the mail; however, after a dozen Air Corp pilots died delivering the mail within the first few months, mail service was returned to private airlines.

Albert Fried, FDR and His Enemies (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 92-93.

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School Segregation Stopped Slowly

1/14/2015

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Despite the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, only 17 school districts in the South were desegregated by 1960.

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2011), 37.

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Each Ironclad Claimed Victory

1/7/2015

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The Civil War’s first battle of ironclad ships ended with each side thinking it won – the Confederacy’s Merrimack left the fight after the Union’s Monitor veered into shallow water because an exploded shell temporarily blinded the ship’s commander.

James M. McPherson, War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861 – 1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 104.

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Louisiana Territory Takeover

Air-Mail Reversal

School Segregation Stopped Slowly

Each Ironclad Claimed Victory

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