America has had four major crisis turning points, each 74 years apart, from the time of the...
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Introduction In the center of this image we see a finely-dressed Christopher Columbus with two soldiers. Columbus...
George Mason’s intellectual potency had a decisive role in shaping and producing our founding documents. America was...
New England statesman Daniel Webster believed in strong, centralized power when it served his region’s interests. For...
The committee delegated Thomas Jefferson to undertake the task, and he worked diligently in private for days...
Feminist movements have generated, made possible, and nurtured feminist theories and feminist academic knowledge. Introduction “History is...
Teaching early American history needs to be expansive and accurate, not mythologized. American history courses usually begin...
The U.S. Senate was designed to be a more deliberative body than the U.S. House. Introduction The...
Adams had become widely revered in his last years. The morning of February 21, 1848, was bright...
The Supreme Court had barely gotten used to its new chamber when the War of 1812 commenced...
The idea of the “people” as a united force suffused the imagery of the New Deal era....
The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson was not...
The admiration of these two former presidents has risen to the level of a posthumous apotheosis in...
The Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino Brumidi, 1865 / United States Capitol rotunda, Wikimedia Commons The Apotheosis of Washington depicts George...