For the American Revolution to be successful, it needed ideas people could embrace and methods for spreading those ideas. It also needed...
Delaware may be the second smallest state in the United States, but it has a BIG, rich history that can tell us much about the history of...
In 1492, Christopher Columbus’ voyage across the Atlantic linked Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. As Columbus’ sponsor, Spain...
How did the postal system work in Early America? How did people send mail across the North American colonies and the British Empire? You...
Who do we count as family? If a relative was born in a foreign place and one of their parents was of a different race? Would they count as...
What does early America look like if we view it through Native American eyes? Jenny Hale Pulsipher, an Associate Professor of History at...
If we want to understand everyday life in early America we need to understand the everyday life of early American farms and farmers...
When we think about colonial American history we think about the colonies of the English, the Dutch, the French, and the Spanish. Rarely do...
Before the English settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 or the Dutch settled near Albany, New York in 1615, a group of French-speaking...
Historians use archives to create the histories we love to read, watch, and listen to. So we’re going into one archive to investigate how...