Looking at at a group of white slaveholders who adopted Southeast Indian boys (Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw) into...
United States History
Explore the peoples and forces that shaped the United States, beginning with Indigenous societies and continuing through colonization, revolution, territorial expansion, slavery, industrialization, war, reform, and ongoing struggles over democracy and equality.
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...
March to Valley Forge, by William B. T. Trego, 1883 / Museum of the American Revolution, Wikimedia Commons...
George Caleb Bingham, “The County Election,”, via Reynolda House Museum of American Art How did the federal government...
Sam Oozevaseuk Schimmel, 18, has grown up in both Alaska and Washington state. He is an advocate...
President Sanford B. Dole of the Republic of Hawaii, his cabinet, and officers of the United States...
1750 map of America / museumoutlets.com By Dr. Marcus Gräser / 02.08.2011 Professor of History Institut für Neuere...
Denali is the highest peak in North America, and the tussle over its name symbolizes the U.S....
Presidents Eisenhower and Nasser meeting in New York, 1960 / Public Domain By Dr. John Buescher Historian...
Carter And King Jazzing Orchestra, 1921 / Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.01.2018 Historian...
Splitting up a family at auction / Public Domain The weeping time does not end with weeping;...