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A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history. 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations. 1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion (1992 USD) in damages.
August 8 – Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor of jurisprudence (died 1918) August 15 – Ethel Barrymore, actress (died 1959) August 20 – Ralph Budd, railroad president (died 1962) August 27 – Otis F. Glenn, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1928 to 1933 (died 1959) August 28 – Sydney Ayres, silent film actor (died 1916)
August 4 – Ernest Lundeen, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1937 to 1940 (died 1940) August 13 – Harold Clarke Goddard, Shakespearean scholar (died 1950) August 28 – George Whipple, pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 (died 1976) August 31 – Frank Jarvis, track athlete (died 1933) September 14
August 11 – The Working Men's Party is founded in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the 1st 'worker oriented' political party in the United States. October 27 – Gold is discovered by Benjamin Parks in or near Cherokee First Nation land in Hall County - later reorganized into Lumpkin County - in, Georgia .
August – A deadly second wave of the Spanish flu starts in France, Sierra Leone and the United States. [1] August 13 – Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. August 27 – Border War; Battle of Ambos Nogales – U.S. Army forces skirmish with Mexican Carrancistas at Nogales, Arizona, in the ...
August 2. National Coloring Book Day. National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. August 3. Clean Your Floors Day. National Watermelon Day. August 4. National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. National White Wine ...
A History of the United States: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815. University Press of America. ISBN 9780819189158. Collier, Christopher. Building a new nation : the Federalist era, 1789-1803 (1999) for middle schools; Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. ISBN 9780684804989.