In 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England granted a royal charter for two institutions of higher education in the Colony of...
On September 17, 1787, the members of the Constitutional Convention concluded their work by signing the final draft of their new proposed...
2020 commemorated the 300th anniversary of French presence on Prince Edward Island. Like much of North America, the Canadian Maritime...
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...
July 4, 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States. In three short years, we...
Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of...
“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and...
For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and...