A “little short of madness.” That is how Thomas Jefferson responded when two delegates from New York approached him with the idea to build...
It wasn’t always fireworks on the Fourth. John Adams predicted Americans would celebrate the Second of July, the day Congress voted in...
Mother’s Day became a national holiday on May 9, 1914 to honor all of the work mothers do to raise children. But what precisely is the work...
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...
In the 21st century, we are all creators and users of content. We take original photos with our smartphones, generate blog posts, digital...
Have you ever wondered how the capital of the United States came to be situated at Washington, D.C.? The banks of the Potomac River...
How do you uncover the life of an enslaved person who left no paper trail? What can the everyday life of an enslaved person tell us about...
What do George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln have in common? They all grew-up in blended or stepfamilies. Lisa Wilson...
We tend to view gay marriage as a cultural and legal development of the 21st century. But did you know that some early Americans lived...
Was the early United States a “Christian nation?” Did most of its citizenry accept God and the Bible as the moral authority that bound them...