What happened in the first few years seems almost innocent compared to what happened in the last...
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Do you dream of enjoying the sunset in the Grand Canyon, having dinner with your beloved one...
Warren was an eloquent, persuasive polemicist who died a martyr at Bunker Hill. By Michael McQuillan “I’m...
They asked voters to sort through mounds of partisan propaganda and do whatever necessary to understand the...
Bitter political partisanship marked eleven previous presidential impeachment inquiries and the 1787 debate in Philadelphia. By Harlow...
Exploring maps and mapmaking influenced the development of colonial North America. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections...
Impeachment carried with it grave risks for the Republicans. Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United...
Johnson was the seventeenth President of the United States, succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of...
Sephardic, German, and Eastern European immigrants each contributed to the formation of American Jewry. By Dr. Joellyn...
Today that potent myth is enshrined (literally) on the sea shore under its classically-inspired canopy. By Martyn...
Riis as a writer, photographer, lecturer, advocate, and ally for reform to address the poverty many ignored....
Social class was prevalent and largely property-based in the colonies. The Colonial Elite Overview In New England...
Why a 19-year-old Frenchman traded Versailles for Valley Forge. The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette had met only...
The titles featured here (by American authors) have had a profound effect on American life. Introduction Ask...
Beginning with a small psalm book that filled a basic need in the devotional lives of colonists,...
Franklin was the 14th state of America. If you haven’t heard of it, that’s because it only...
True or False? Franklin Delano Roosevelt claimed to be a conservative defender of the nation’s founding ideals....
From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Disneyland, the concept has represented both the experimental and the conventional. In the...
Through the trauma of war, and by learning from his mistakes, the first president gained empathy and...
The first president was indispensable to our early republic, precisely because he didn’t see himself as indispensable....
Founded in 1865, St. Thomas, Nevada, was initially settled by Mormons drawn by Muddy Creek, a tributary...
Washington Irving leaves Gotham to explore the frontier. As he entered New York City on May 21,...
Poet-politician Joel Barlow personified an ideology borne of religious antipathy and economic rivalry. No sooner had the...
Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America. “Nir nir nir,” that is,“me me...
From the coins we count to the democracy we practice, the mother country’s influence is holding strong...
Who identified as “American” during the Revolution? To what extent did the American Revolution serve the interests...
Exploring the changing meaning and significance of the American Revolution during the 18th and 19th Centuries. Originally...
Exploring the subject of immigration in U.S. history with particular attention to the two and a half...
Presuming that immigration was a boon to national security, U.S. borders remained mostly open for the first...
By shielding British loyalists from persecution, the founder elevated principles over prejudice. The struggles of America’s cultural...