Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is the difference between the words historic and historical. A listener, Denise, wants to know if she should say, We sell historic replicas or We sell historical replicas. Was an event a historic occasion or was it a h...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In the presidential election of eighteen eighty-eight, one issue that played a major part was tariffs. At that time, import taxes were high on many products. Th...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In the spring of eighteen sixty-five, the American Civil War was over. And the president who had led the Union during that war was dead. Abraham Lincoln had been murdered b...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 05 November 2009 US Capitol, Washington DC The stage is set for a historic debate in the U.S. Congress on legislation crafted by majority Democrats to reform the U.S. health care system. The debate expected in a special...
Security and trade have been the focus of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's visit to Australia. It is the first time an Iraqi leader has made an official trip to Australia, a country which supported the American-led campaign to oust Saddam Huss...
By Mil Arcega Washington 27 February 2008 Wheat futures shot up this week to near the all-time high ($11.6975 a bushel) as foreign buyers scrambled to lock in supplies. A combination of bad weather, increasing global demand and export slowdowns in wh...
By Victoria Cavaliere New York 29 December 2007 The first synagogue built by Eastern European Jews in New York City has undergone a massive, $20 million renovation and it recently reopened. Victoria Cavaliere reports from VOA's New York bureau that...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 01 October 2007 South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun Tuesday made a historic walk across the heavily-fortified border with North Korea to attend a summit with Kim Jong Il. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, few details are kn...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 06 June 2007 The non-profit World Monument Fund has released its biennial Watch List of the world's 100 most endangered architectural and cultural treasures. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau re...
By Brian Padden Washington, D.C. 06 February 2007 watch Racial Barrier report The Superbowl is not only the championship final of the National Football League in the United States, it is also the country's most watched sporting event of the year. Th...