History Now Essay A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day James Oliver Horton Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In the late fall of 1983, the US Congress passed a bill declaring the third Monday of January each year as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on November 2, 1983, fifteen years after King’s... Appears in: 4 | American National Holidays Summer 2005 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
Essay The American Revolution, 1763–1783 Pauline Maier World History The British colonists of mainland North America had great hopes for the future in 1763, when the Peace of Paris formally ended the Seven Years’ War. Since the late seventeenth century, their lives had been disrupted by a series of...