Mounds that form the Newark Earthworks. (Credit: The National Archives)

Artwork outside the library. (Courtesy of the Southern California Library)

Details of Columbia Restaurant, known for its Spanish tile, fountain and ornate architecture. (Credit: Jennifer Wright/Alamy Stock Photo)

A river running through golden meadows with snow-peaked mountains behind

A. Philip Randolph statue at Union Station, Washington D.C. (Credit: Elvert Barnes/Flickr Creative Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Jane Addams talking with a group of young people visiting her settlement house called The Hull House in Chicago, IL, 1935. (Credit: AP Photo)

A woman demonstrating how to use a hat pin in self defense, 1904

Dwight D Eisenhower boyhood home located in Abilene, Kansas. (Credit: David R. Frazier Photolibrary, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo)

Ohio River in winter. (Credit: S4M/Getty Images)

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<p> <a href="https://slack-redir.net/link?url=http%3A%2F%2FHISTORY.com">HISTORY.com</a> is covering a range of angles about pandemics of the past to help frame the COVID-19 crisis.</p>


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Legacy Unpublished

<p>From raising families to leading armies, women such as Catherine the Great, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Amanirenas, Queen Elizabeth I, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin and countless others have played a vital role in history.</p>


Women’s History

<p>The 1990s is often remembered as a decade of relative peace and prosperity: The Soviet Union fell, ending the decades-long Cold War, and the rise of the Internet ushered in a radical new era of communication, business and entertainment. However, the decade was not without violence and tragedy, including the Bosnian genocide, the Rodney King beating and subsequent L.A. Riots, and the bombing of the World Trade Center. The Columbine High School shooting marked a solemn chapter in gun violence, and the devastatingly deadly Oklahoma City bombing by a domestic terrorist followed lethal standoffs between federal agents and armed civilians at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco, Texas.</p>


1990s

<p>Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.</p>


Inventions & Science

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