Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we...
What made trade with China so important to the new United States that one of Americans’ first acts after securing the United States’...
Alexander Hamilton played important roles in the founding of the United States. He served in the Continental Army, helped frame the United...
With Ukrainian sovereignty and democracy under attack, Americans have been wondering: Should our government be doing more than placing...
In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River and between the southern...
During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict economic damage to the revolutionaries’...
One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an alligator-shaped island that sits at the...
You know “America’s favorite fighting Frenchman” is the Marquis de Lafayette. But what do you know about Lafayette and his life? How and...
The transatlantic slave trade dominated in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. But by 1808, a different slave trade came to...
Investigations of the American Revolution often include explorations of politics, ideology, trade and taxation, imperial control, and...