In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This purchase included the important port city of New Orleans...
What has enabled the American experiment in democracy to endure for nearly 250 years? What is it about early American history that...
Have you ever considered early American cities as places where Native Americans lived, worked, and visited? Native Americans often visited...
Investigations of the American Revolution often include explorations of politics, ideology, trade and taxation, imperial control, and...
To understand early American history, we need to investigate and understand North America as an Indigenous space. A place where Native...
The story of freedom in colonial New Orleans and Louisiana pivoted on the choices black women made to retain control of their...
The words of the Declaration of Independence are not the only aspect of the American Revolution that carry power. Visual and material...
Death is one of the few universals in life. Everyone who is born, will die. How do the living make peace with death? While different...
The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
Smallpox was the most feared disease in North America and in many parts of the world before its eradication in 1980. So how did early...