Juneteenth is a state holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, the day slavery ended in Texas. Over the last decade, a push to make...
Have you ever stopped to think about how the United States became a manufacturing nation? Have you ever wondered how the United States...
The history of Native American land dispossession is as old as the story of colonization. European colonists came to the Americas, and the...
What was everyday life like for those who lived in early America? To get at the everyday lives of early Americans we need to look at the...
The name “Great Dismal Swamp” doesn’t evoke an image of a pleasant or beautiful place, and yet, it was an important place that offered land...
In what ways did the Atlantic World contribute to the American Revolution? Empire, slavery, and constant warfare interacted with each other...
For four months during the summer of 1787, delegates from the thirteen states met in Philadelphia to craft a revised Constitution that...
Who is American democracy for and who could participate in early American democracy? Women and African Americans were often barred from...
Independence from Great Britain provided the former British American colonists the opportunity to create a new, more democratic government...
We live in an age where big businesses track our shopping habits and in some cases our work habits. But is the age of data new? When did...