The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized enlistment of riflemen to serve the United Colonies for one year. For more on the history of the U.S. Army birthday, click here: the Army birthday.
With the advent of digital information systems and the Internet, the scope of publishing has expanded to include electronic resources such as the electronic versions of books and periodicals, as well as micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishers, and the like.
YA as a mainstream category started with the later Harry Potter books, Twilight and The Hunger Games. Donât get me wrong, there have always been YA books, but they werenât widely recognized or labeled as such until you had these kinds of phenomenon books. But New Adult came out of self-publishing. Many self-published authors were filling a gap in traditional publishing. There were books for very young kids, middle graders, and teens, and then there were books for adults.