For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and...
On April 19, 1775, the thirteen colonies found themselves at war with Great Britain. British military forces ranked among the most powerful...
In 1682, the first Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Delaware counties met in Chester, Pennsylvania, and adopted “the Great Law,” a...
On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately...
History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. It also allows us to look back and see how far we’ve come as people and...
How did Indigenous people adapt and survive the onslaught of Indigenous warfare, European diseases, and population loss between the...
People of African descent have made great contributions to the United States and its history. Think about all of the food, music, dance...
African chattel slavery, the predominant type of slavery practiced in colonial North America and the early United States, did not represent...
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...