By Rachel Quednau / 10.08.2015 Among the many propaganda campaigns executed during World War II was this...
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Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction The Progressive Era was a time...
The challenges Americans faced in the post-Civil War era extended far beyond the issue of Reconstruction and...
Cider, water, milk, and whiskey! By Melissa Swindell / 12.06.2012 Executive Director The Wren’s Nest Practically everyone...
A One Hundred Dollar Confederate States of America banknote dated December 22, 1862. Issued during the American...
The Hunley submarine / Wikimedia Commons War makes governments willing to try nearly anything, no matter how...
Men stand in line outside a depression soup kitchen, 1931 / Public Domain Far less has been...
Early desire to remove George Washington as the Continental Army’s Commander-in-Chief. By Dr. John Buescher Historian You...
Illustration of The Liberty Tree in Boston. From A History of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, from...
Looking at at a group of white slaveholders who adopted Southeast Indian boys (Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw) into...
Abigail Adams / Public Domain As state sponsored government art, stamps offer an incredibly rich visual resource....
Scientific investigation was a central part of eighteenth century philosophical inquiry. By George Goodwin / 12.18.2017 Eccles...
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 1794. (British Library: Maps K.Top.83.61.i) That the American Declaration of Independence was based...
There is a strong correlation between the discourse of medical geography and German settlement patterns. By Paul Warden...
Anti-immigrant cartoon showing two men labeled “Irish Wiskey” and “Lager Bier,” carrying a ballot box. / Everett...
Betsy Ross showing Major Ross and Robert Morris how she cut the stars for the American flag;...
How did the debate between Jefferson and Hamilton shape the political system of the United States? By Dr....
Harbour, Pilot’s Tower and Paddle Steamers 1852. / Dover Museum Nativism caused much splintering in the political...
Statue of Alexander Hamilton by William Ordway Patridge standing outside of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall / Photo...
The Signing of the United States Constitution, by Louis S. Glanzman, 1987 / National Historical Park, Pennsylvania,...
Leader of the North in the Civil War, orator of the Gettysburg Address, described by some as...
Lakewood Plaza, outdoor living space, Long Beach, California, 1950s. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Courtesy of The Huntington...
John Brown in “The Tragic Prelude,” displayed at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka. Painted by John...
A lithograph, “The Drunkard’s Progress”, by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, c.1846 / Wikimedia Commons What caused the temperance movement...
Tippecanoe River, Near Camp Tecumseh, State Y.M.C.A. Camp, Delphi, Indiana / Springfield College Archives and Special Collections Presentation...
Boston Public Library, Flickr, Creative Commons How have historians interpreted the impact of the failed impeachment attempt...
James Monroe was neither a writer of Paine’s caliber nor an original thinker such as Jefferson, but...
Wikimedia Commons What would have happened if the Patriots had been defeated in the War of Independence?...
Josiah Dennis House, Dennis, Massachusetts / Photo by Thomas Kelley, Wikimedia Commons Was Puritan New England the “cradle”...
Painting depicting the first victory at sea by USS Constitution over HMS Guerriere, by Anton Otto Fischer / Department...