It is as an entrepreneur that Washington serves best to inspire Americans in the twenty-first century. By...
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For well over two hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his admirers have had to choose between two...
The Constitution did not give the President power to issue a proclamation or legislate, but Washington set...
The citizen soldiers may have started the Revolution, but it was the French that finished it—something that...
The admiration of these two former presidents has risen to the level of a posthumous apotheosis in...
The Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino Brumidi, 1865 / United States Capitol rotunda, Wikimedia Commons The Apotheosis of Washington depicts George...
Exploring the role of Magna Carta in the politics and popular culture of modern America. From The Simpsons...
The Magna Carta (originally known as the Charter of Liberties) of 1215, written in iron gall ink on parchment...
‘Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor’ by William Halsall (1882). Pilgrim Hall Museum The Pilgrims repeatedly thanked God for their good fortune. But...
The British Empire stood in the way. Not until the late 1950s did the US finally become...
How have historians interpreted the impact of the failed impeachment attempt of Andrew Johnson? Andrew Johnson, the...
Detail of John Trumbull’s painting depicting the Committee of Five presenting their draft of the Declaration of...
Puerto Rico Photo Post Card by Photographer A. Arguinzoni , a Puerto Rican photographer of Corsican descent,...
The Little Bighorn Battlefield, Lodge Grass, Montana / Photo by Acroterion, Wikimedia Commons The battle is also...
The heads of the “Big Four” nations at the Paris Peace Conference, 27 May 1919. From left...
Wilson campaign vehicle, New York City, March 1916: “Who Keeps Us Out of War?” How idealistic was...
William Jennings Bryan during the 1896 campaign for U.S. president / U.S. Information Agency, Wikimedia Commons For...
Boston Almshouse Meeting the eligibility requirements of the Poor Laws was not easy in pre-1935 America. By...
Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. The first picket line – College day in...
Neither Jefferson nor any Founding Father ought to be treated as statues—i.e., “creatures of legend more than history.”...
National Archives at College Park / Wikimedia Commons A tense situation due to a heavy British military...
Lunch Counter Sit-in, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960 / Library of Congress, Public Domain On February 1, 1960,...
The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering, Von Karkatir / Public Domain The Boston Tea Party,...
Investigating potential correlations between Roosevelt’s and Pos’ ideas on women’s rights and intercultural understanding. By Dr. Babs...
Mill children in Macon, photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1909 / Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons From...
Celebration of completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad at what is now Golden Spike National Historic Site, Promontory Summit, Utah,...
Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama / Photo by Altairisfar, Wikimedia Commons The Catholic Church in...
Franklin Roosevelt’s Gubernatorial portrait, by Jacob H. Perskie, 1941 / Wikimedia Commons The Founding Fathers considered term...
Judging from his public speeches, Franklin D. Roosevelt–aka FDR–may have been our most religious 20th century President....
Tea Party protest at the National Mall on September 12, 2009 / Photo by NYyankees51, Wikimedia Commons...