LNGenZ News for Kids: 21 – History

The US Coast Guard has served the country throughout its history, tracing its origin to “4 August 1790, when the first Congress authorized the construction of ten vessels to enforce tariff and trade laws and to prevent smuggling.” Consequently, with… Read More

Throughout human history, the end of one war has usually proven to be the makings of the next. So it was with “The Great War,” World War I. The peace negotiations held in Paris between January and June 1919 transformed… Read More

By its founding nature and culture, America has been reluctant to engage in foreign wars. However, in the early 1900s, things happened in Europe that eventually drew almost the entire world into war. The history of the US military in… Read More

“Space, the final frontier,” said William Shatner as Captain James Tiberius Kirk in the intro to every episode of the 1960s television show Star Trek. Kirk and his crew were military members of Starfleet whose mission was, among other things,… Read More

Until Congress passed the National Security Act on July 26, 1947, no military department of the US Air Force (USAF) existed. Two months later, W. Stuart Symington became the first Air Force secretary, and a week later, Gen. Carl A…. Read More

On this Presidents’ Day, a celebration of the country’s commanders-in-chief, we take a look at some amazing facts you might not have known about our nation’s past leaders. Thomas Jefferson: During the War of 1812, the British burned down the… Read More

“From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli” is how the US Marine Corps song starts. The Marines have historically been deployed over beaches in amphibious landings. According to the official History of the Marine Corps, in 1776,… Read More

America’s Navy is more powerful than any other in the world, but that wasn’t always the case. The US Navy was first designated the Continental Navy. Not long after the Revolutionary War ground battles at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on… Read More

It was a date that, as promised by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), lives on in infamy. On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service executed a military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor,… Read More

How did the United States of America develop into the most powerful nation in history? This is the first of a series on the history of the US Armed Forces that will answer that question. In this, the first part… Read More

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 took the lives of thousands of people and destroyed two cities – Pompeii and Herculaneum. But it also buried and preserved the remains of those cities, leaving a record for scientists and… Read More

Since the founding of the nation, American laborers have wished for better working conditions and pay – and some were willing to fight for it. Throughout the years, many changes were made in the nature of labor in America –… Read More