Skip to content
Historical Snapshots
Honor people. Understand the past.

Tag: U.S. History

Our collection of biographical and historical fiction short stories, quotes and photographs about U.S. History.

snapshot biographies

1912 Olympics – Jim Thorpe perseveres to win gold

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

It was the summer of 1912, the Olympics in Sweden. Jim Thorpe, a Native American from the Sac and Fox tribe, was representing the U.S. in four events, including...

snapshot biographies

Victoria Woodhull – first woman to run for President

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

“There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the ...

snapshot biographies

The short story of aviator Bessie Coleman

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

“The air is the only place free from prejudices. I knew we had no aviators, neither men nor women, and I knew the Race needed to be represented along this most ...

Narrative Nonfiction

President Roosevelt gives speech after being shot

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to ...

snapshot biographies

Alice Stebbins Wells – first U.S. woman with arrest powers

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

Alice Stebbins Wells was born in Kansas and educated at Oberlin College, where she studied the need for female police officers. She then went to the Hartford Th...

snapshot biographies

A snapshot biography of Maggie Lena Walker

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a former slave and cook, was the first woman to charter a bank in the United States in 1902. The bank offered loans and mort...

Quotes

Chief Red Cloud: “We want peace and love.”

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

Quote: “I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We ...

Black and white historical photos

A snapshot of life from New York, circa 1910.

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

A snapshot of life from New York City, circa 1910. — A snapshot of life from New York, circa 1910 source: photograph taken by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Photograph

Mail carrier in Los Angeles, circa 1915

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

Photograph of a mail carrier in Los Angeles, circa 1915. Source: Bain News Service, Publisher. Los Angeles woman mail carrier. [Between and Ca. 1920] Photograph...

snapshot biographies

Inez Milholland – A Snapshot Biography

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

“I am trying to discharge my own individual debt to society by improving the conditions of life for women and children.” — In her early college years at V...

Posts navigation

« Previous 1 2 3 4 Next »
© 2023 Historical Snapshots
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy
 

Loading Comments...
 

You must be logged in to post a comment.