Further reading
As the first President of the United States, George Washington set many precedents for the new nation. One of the biggest precedents Washington set...
Polygamy is not a practice that often comes to mind when we think about early America. But it turns out, polygamy was a ubiquitous practice among...
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 July?” In...
Who gets to be a founding father? “Founding Father” status goes to men who helped found the United States. That means the 56 men who signed the...
What was it like to keep a pet in Early America? How did early Americans acquire pets? What kinds of animals did early Americans keep as pets? Ingrid...
What do we know about how and why England came to establish its first permanent colony at Jamestown? And what do we know about the English colony...