What in the first 40 years of his life made Benjamin Franklin the genius he became? Benjamin Franklin serves as a great window on to the...
How did the people of early America experience and feel about winter? Thomas Wickman, an Associate Professor of History and American...
How did early Americans educate their children? How and when did Americans create a formal system of public education? You sent me these...
The Treaty of Paris 1783 ended the American War for Independence, but it did not bring peace to North America. After 1783, warfare and...
Did you know that imagination once played a key role in the way Americans understood and practiced medicine? Sari Altschuler, an Associate...
History is an important tool when it comes to understanding American law. History is what the justices of the United States Supreme Court...
What was it like to live as a woman of faith in early republic America? What was it like to live as a Catholic in the early United States...
How do empires come to be? How are empires made and who makes them? What role do maps play in making empires? Christian Koot is a Professor...
What can a family history tell us about revolutionary and early republic America? What can the letters of a wife and mother tell us about...
Much of early American history comprises stories of empire and how different Native, European, and Euro-American nations vied for control...