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22Feb
2016

This Week in History – The Battle of Iwo Jima

Featured Photo, Above: Photographer Joe Rosenthal snapping a posed shot minutes after taking the most reproduced photograph in the history of photography. The foot of Mt. Suribachi is in the background.  (Source: USMC ...

10Mar
2014

This Week in History: Andrew Johnson, Jack Ruby, Antonin Scalia

On March 11, Happy Birthday Justice Antonin Scalia (born 1936 in Trenton, NJ). On March 13, 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins.  This was the first time in history that a sitting president had ...