On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously asked “What to the Slave is the Fourth of...
Who gets to be a founding father? “Founding Father” status goes to men who helped found the United States. That means the 56 men who signed...
How did Americans learn to establish philanthropic institutions? Victoria Johnson, an Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at...
What do you know about the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution? Caitlin Galante-DeAngelis Hopkins, a Lecturer in the...
Did you know that imagination once played a key role in the way Americans understood and practiced medicine? Sari Altschuler, an Associate...
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...
Who gets to be a citizen of the United States? How does the United States define who belongs to the nation? Early Americans asked and...
What did early Americans think about science? And how did they pursue and develop their knowledge of it? Cameron Strang, an Assistant...
Between 1789 and 1825, five men would serve as President of the United States. Four of them hailed from Virginia. Many of us know details...
A “little short of madness.” That is how Thomas Jefferson responded when two delegates from New York approached him with the idea to build...