What do we know about the American Revolution? Why is it important that we see the Revolution as a political event, a war, a time of social...
After Henry Hudson’s 1609-voyage along the river that now bears his name, Dutch traders began to visit and trade at the area they called...
In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River and between the southern...
During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict economic damage to the revolutionaries’...
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...
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706, to Abiah Folger and Josiah Franklin. Although Franklin began his life as the...
One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an alligator-shaped island that sits at the...
About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri. Established in 1750 by the...
The first Jewish colonists in North America arrived in 1654. From that moment, Jews worked to build and contribute to early American...
In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This purchase included the important port city of New Orleans...