LNGenZ News for Kids: History

There are Halloween traditions galore: trick-or-treating, dressing up in boo-tiful costumes, watching scary movies, visiting haunted houses, and especially carving faces on pumpkins. Why pumpkins? Apparently, the concept was adopted by the Irish and takes us back about 200 years… Read More

More than 300 years ago, Salem Village, MA, was the site of one of America’s most infamous cases of mass hysteria: the Salem Witch Trials. Hundreds were accused of witchcraft between 1692 and mid-1693, the crime being one that carried… Read More

Imagine someone who loved the sound of waves breaking on the shore, the chatter of a busy street, and the soft rustle of grass underfoot, and then turned all those sounds into poetry. That person was Walt Whitman. He was… Read More

Meet Anna Harrison, the first lady who packed her trunks for Washington, DC, and then never got to move into the White House. In 1841, her husband, William Henry Harrison, became the ninth president, but Anna stayed home in Ohio… Read More

Have you ever seen the musical Cats, a play about a tribe of felines called the Jellicles? Those characters began as poems written by a playful, puzzle-loving poet named T. S. Eliot, short for Thomas Stearns Eliot. He was born… Read More

Conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on Wednesday, September 10, while speaking at a college in Utah. The husband and father of two was fatally shot in broad daylight, a chilling reminder of one… Read More

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (1775–1852) was the wife of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. She was also the first first lady born outside the US — she was born in London, England. Louisa Adams –… Read More

The Berlin Airlift is one of the most significant military operations in history, noted for its logistics prowess and life-saving results. When World War II concluded in May 1945, the loser, Germany, was divided into four zones of occupation. West… Read More

Labor Day is a time each year when Americans celebrate hard workers and their contributions to the nation’s strength, prosperity, and well-being. But labor looked a lot different when this nation first began than it does today, and none of… Read More

A group of Japanese and Taiwanese scientists wanted to learn what it was like to travel by sea back in the old days and tested it on a 30,000-year-old sea expedition. They wanted the experiment to be as accurate to… Read More

Elizabeth Monroe (born Elizabeth Kortright) may not have had any political aspirations, but she would grow up to become a first lady to James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States. Unlike her predecessor, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth enjoyed solitude… Read More

California, the Golden State, was the 31st state to be added to the Union. It is the third-largest, after Alaska and Texas, and has a rich history in Native American life, Spanish ministry, and gold mining. Because of the differing… Read More