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...
Law is all around us. And the basis of American Law comes not only from our early American past, but from our founding documents. This...
The Second Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776 with 12 colonies and one abstention. The delegation from New York...
What was it like to live as a woman of faith in early republic America? What was it like to live as a Catholic in the early United States...
How do empires come to be? How are empires made and who makes them? What role do maps play in making empires? Christian Koot is a Professor...
Who gets to be a citizen of the United States? How does the United States define who belongs to the nation? Early Americans asked and...
We read and hear a lot about money. We read and hear about fluctuations in the value of the Dollar, Pound, and Euro, interest rates and who...
What can a family history tell us about revolutionary and early republic America? What can the letters of a wife and mother tell us about...
Much of early American history comprises stories of empire and how different Native, European, and Euro-American nations vied for control...