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...
In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This purchase included the important port city of New Orleans...
What has enabled the American experiment in democracy to endure for nearly 250 years? What is it about early American history that...
The transatlantic slave trade dominated in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. But by 1808, a different slave trade came to...
To understand early American history, we need to investigate and understand North America as an Indigenous space. A place where Native...
The words of the Declaration of Independence are not the only aspect of the American Revolution that carry power. Visual and material...
Death is one of the few universals in life. Everyone who is born, will die. How do the living make peace with death? While different...
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...