LNGenZ News for Kids: Social Studies

The folks at Gallup are saying 86% of respondents to a recent “American Views” survey believe the media is biased. People saw only a small amount of bias in their own favorite news agencies, but 69% felt other outlets were… Read More

Alcohol is highly regulated in the United States today, but did you know it was once illegal? The period of time known as Prohibition began when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol… Read More

When the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, it nearly doubled the size of the nation. But after the Louisiana Purchase, someone needed to explore all that extra land. President Thomas Jefferson sent Captain Meriwether Lewis,… Read More

August 18 marks 100 years since the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote. President Donald Trump, in a surprise move, pardoned suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony, to mark the anniversary. Anthony’s crime? She dared to vote. During… Read More

Bill Gates and Elon Musk have said that artificial intelligence (A.I.) and the automatization of work will put much of the population out of work. They think the only answer is universal basic income. Is this true, or is there… Read More

Why is Africa still mostly poor? Some say it was colonialism that turned the continent into a wasteland of corruption and poverty – but could there be another reason? The continent remains mostly socialist. In the 19th and 20th centuries,… Read More

Nevada became the 36th state of the Union on October 31, 1864. It was during the campaign to re-elect Abraham Lincoln, and the Republicans wanted the extra three electoral votes the new state would bring to the table. There wasn’t… Read More

As the radical left tries to remove American history piece by piece by taking down statues, those who care about logic and reason find themselves seeking a voice in the current madness. so far, this more or less silent group… Read More

By the time Thomas Jefferson became the third U.S. president in 1801, the United States stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Jefferson knew that gaining access to the river and the Gulf of Mexico would greatly strengthen… Read More

Nebraska, the Cornhusker State, didn’t join the Union until two years after the Civil War. It became the 37th state on March 1, 1867. Its name came from the Otoe Indians and means “flat water,” referring to the Platte River,… Read More

The people leading Black Lives Matter (BLM) have some Americans worried about what is to come as this summer of civil unrest continues. Are rioting, looting, and vandalizing statues going to lead to widespread violence? If this is merely the… Read More

Benjamin Harrison (1833 – 1901), the 23rd president of the United States, was the second in his family to be elected to the position. His grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president and served the shortest term in history…. Read More