On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution and submitted it to the...
What made trade with China so important to the new United States that one of Americans’ first acts after securing the United States’...
What did it take to stage a successful slave uprising? Over the course of the early republic, we see a few violent slave uprisings in the...
Alexander Hamilton played important roles in the founding of the United States. He served in the Continental Army, helped frame the United...
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We know from our explorations of early America that not all Americans were treated equally or enjoyed the freedoms and liberties other...
With Ukrainian sovereignty and democracy under attack, Americans have been wondering: Should our government be doing more than placing...
In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River and between the southern...
During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict economic damage to the revolutionaries’...
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...