What was everyday life like for average men and women in early America? Listeners ask this question more than any other question and today...
What in the first 40 years of his life made Benjamin Franklin the genius he became? Benjamin Franklin serves as a great window on to the...
How did the people of early America experience and feel about winter? Thomas Wickman, an Associate Professor of History and American...
How did early Americans educate their children? How and when did Americans create a formal system of public education? You sent me these...
On July 1, 1790, Congress passed “An Act for Establishing the temporary and permanent Seat of the Government of the United States.” This...
The Treaty of Paris 1783 ended the American War for Independence, but it did not bring peace to North America. After 1783, warfare and...
Did you know that imagination once played a key role in the way Americans understood and practiced medicine? Sari Altschuler, an Associate...
History is an important tool when it comes to understanding American law. History is what the justices of the United States Supreme Court...
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution doesn’t always make headlines, but it’s an amendment that undergirds foundational...
How and why did Congress draft the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution? In the United States, we use the Constitution and Bill of...