LNGenZ News for Kids: Social Studies

“The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.” ~ E.L. Doctorow November 21, 1783: The First Hot-Air Balloon Flight Today, it might not seem like a big deal to fly in a… Read More

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.” ~ Victor Hugo November 14, 1889: Nellie Bly Started Her Around the World Trip When Jules Verne wrote Around the World… Read More

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” ~ Harry S. Truman Election Day and Presidential Elections November is the time of year Americans go to the voting booths and choose their local, state,… Read More

“History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.” ~ Anselm Kiefer November 4, 1922: King Tut’s Tomb is Discovered King Tut (Tutankhamun) is a very famous historical figure…. Read More

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.” ~ Winston Churchill The shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, is one of America’s greatest Wild West stories. Movies have been made about the event, including… Read More

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall – think… Read More

“The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.” ~ Eric Hoffer October 13, 1792: Construction of the White House Washington, DC, was not always the capital… Read More

“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” ~ John W. Gardner October 8, 1871: The Great Chicago Fire In the 1800s, fire departments didn’t have the technology that modern firefighters use. Especially in regions where buildings… Read More

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” ~ Michael Crichton October 1, 1908: Henry Ford’s Model T Went on Sale The Ford Model T… Read More

“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” ~ Will Durant September 24, 1957: Little Rock Crisis Although the Civil War had ended nearly a… Read More

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” George Bernard Shaw September 16, 1620: The Mayflower Departs for the New World The Pilgrims, as we call them today, began the… Read More

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” ~ C. Wright Mills The Birth of the United States September 5, 1774 The American colonists were tired of the control Britain… Read More