The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The United States has lost almost seven million jobs since the recession began in December of two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

But ten years later, a similar accusation by another boy led to a criminal trial which began in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

They based their findings on more than four thousand adolescents who were not depressed when the survey began in nineteen ninety-five.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Since the demonstrations began in March, at least eighty-three people were killed and one thousand eight hundred wounded.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

When the Russian Revolution began in nineteen seventeen, the Rosenbaum family fled to the Russian state of Crimea.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Soon after the war began in eighteen sixty-one, military commanders started to send battlefield reports by telegraph.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

The debate over gold and silver was especially important because of an economic depression that began in the United States in eighteen ninety-three.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

When the economic depression began in eighteen ninety-three, George Pullman cut the size of his work force.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Planning for the bridge began in the nineteen twenties when the area around San Francisco was growing.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

But eight million jobs have disappeared since the recession began in December of two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

It began in nineteen eighty as a community organization called the New York Chinatown History Project.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

But the story began in the nineteen forties with the X series of experimental aircraft.

VOA: special.2010.07.07