The early colonists of America considered the militia an important social institution, necessary to provide defense and...
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Exploring the literary context in which American Renaissance writers wrote and published. Originally published by Newberry Digital...
Gothic literature has a long, complex, and multi-layered history. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the...
Grant was accused with packing the court, the same charge later leveled against FDR in 1937. Introduction...
Soldiers were typically yeoman farmers with a sense of honor and status and an ideological commitment to...
The term has also been applied to various later civilian paramilitary forces trying to recall the success...
Rivalries over its political symbolism, and damage from the War of 1812, nearly destroyed the city. As...
Many radical Republicans pressured Jefferson and the Republican-dominated Congress to make war on the Federalist judiciary. In...
It was not until the 1830s that the idea of a centralized municipal police department first emerged...
Freedom on the Move is a database collecting these ads, which help form a more complete picture...
Marches, demonstrations, civic unrest, attacks by law enforcement and the military on protesting civilians – in 1932....
Doomed to failure, this early colonial project lacked adequate planning and logistical support. Introduction The Roanoke Colony...
As the South Carolina city prepared to break from the Union, its people swung between nostalgia and...
By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps. Introduction In the...
This was the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America...
Women spies of the American Revolution. Introduction Throughout the Revolutionary War, there are stories of heroism; those...
Two wives of the American Revolution – one a patriot, one a spy. By Victoria Cooney Lucy...
Examining some myths about women during the Revolutionary War and trying to find the truth. We all...
An 18th-century guide taught Americans how to eat simply but sumptuously. By Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald...
They may not have been hosting a cookout, but they did know how to imbibe and celebrate....
Alexander McKenzie’s plot to corner Alaska’s gold proved to be the last great swindle of the original...
LGBTQ history in the United States spans the contributions and struggles of individuals as well as the...
After World War II, conservative Protestants rejected the separatist stance and began calling themselves evangelicals. Introduction In...
A number of issues were involved in the Civil War, all inextricably bound to the institution of...
The issue that started the 1877 affair was not police brutality and institutional racism but economic inequality....
The use of federal troops in a law enforcement role has a twisted and often anti-working class...
After winning the Civil War and living in the White House, he decided to see the world....
It is perhaps the fact that Washington was determined to limit his power as President that is...
Rivalries, conflict, and “bad blood” between presidents are part of the story of American history. Most of...
Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago in the United States, but the hard work of achieving...