“The Lucy Furnaces in 1886.” Carnegie Steel Company, Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania / Wikimedia Commons As the United...
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Although the original purpose of the convention was to amend the Articles of Confederation, some—though not all—delegates...
Radical pamphleteer Thomas Paine advocated a republic: a state without a king. By Dr. P. Scott Corbett,...
Painting depicting George Washington leading the Continental Army to Valley Forge in 1777, by William B. T....
1952 Democratic Convention / Wikimedia Commons People gain an understanding and acceptance of the political culture of...
Green Dragon Tavern, Union Street. Engraver: Russell. 1898 (approximate). Copy photograph from engraving by Russell of the...
Walter Lippmann / Public Domain The interwar period was a moment of deep crisis everywhere. By Dr....
Statue of Alexander Hamilton by James Earle Fraser in front of the United States Treasury Building in...
Illustration of a workroom where several men use machines and tools to craft prosthetics / National Library...
Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship on the eve of America’s entry into the First World War....
Plaza Cristobal Colon in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico / Wikimedia Commons In 1898, the Puerto Rican...
Photo by Marine 69-71, Wikimedia Commons It was 1848, the end of the Mexican-American War. By Naomi...
John F. Paramino’s relief sculpture is the Founders Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. It shows Boston’s first resident,...
War emergencies, Madison argued, were tests to obey the Constitution, not ignore it. By Dr. Burton W....
Senator John F. Kennedy speaks to supporters at Chicago Stadium four days before the 1960 election. AP...
The 1824 presidential election marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time...
It was the rising up of American taxpayers to refuse payment of a hated tax, and Washington’s...
An 1804 campaign poster urging support for the Jefferson-Clinton ticket “…no man will ever bring out of...
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams via Wikimedia Commons, Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, Adams by John Trumbull Both...
NRMA Motoring and services / Wikimedia Commons Against the backdrop of the Cold War, Americans sought prosperity...
An early live radio play being broadcast at NBC Studios, New York. / Wikimedia Commons With a...
John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, 1786–1820, oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 31...
There was a glacial pace of progress in the segregated South. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh /...
By the 1960s, the pace of change had quickened and its scope broadened. Edited by Matthew A....
FDR in Brazil / Wikimedia Commons Roosevelt won his second term in a landslide, but that did...
Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law, August 14, 1935 / Wikimedia Commons Roosevelt began his...
The country’s most vulnerable populations were the hardest hit. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.27.2018 Historian...
While it is misleading to view the stock market crash of 1929 as the sole cause of...
Although William Howard Taft was Theodore Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor to the presidency, he was less inclined to...
Roosevelt believed that the United States had the right and the obligation to be the policeman of...