The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis sits the town of Ste. Geneviève, Missouri. Established in 1750...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has an exhibit called Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States...
Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of...
For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and...
In 1682, the first Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Delaware counties met in Chester, Pennsylvania, and adopted “the Great Law,” a...
People of African descent have made great contributions to the United States and its history. Think about all of the food, music, dance...
On December 19, 1777, George Washington marched his Continental Army into its winter encampment at Valley Forge. In school we learned this...
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of African and African American music to the United States’ musical traditions. Steven Lewis, a...
On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution and submitted it to the...