On September 17, 1787, the members of the Constitutional Convention concluded their work by signing the final draft of their new proposed...
July 4, 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States. In three short years, we...
“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and...
On April 19, 1775, the thirteen colonies found themselves at war with Great Britain. British military forces ranked among the most powerful...
On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately...
History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. It also allows us to look back and see how far we’ve come as people and...
How did Indigenous people adapt and survive the onslaught of Indigenous warfare, European diseases, and population loss between the...
African chattel slavery, the predominant type of slavery practiced in colonial North America and the early United States, did not represent...
Before the American Revolution became a war and a fight for independence, the Revolution was a movement and protest for more local control...
On December 19, 1777, George Washington marched his Continental Army into its winter encampment at Valley Forge. In school we learned this...