Explore American history from its indigenous roots, its influential leaders, and socio-cultural events that forged the United States as a global powerhouse.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War, but what were the immediate and lasting effects of the peace agreement?
Everyone knows about the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter, South Carolina in April 1861, but what was the first real land battle of the American Civil War?
On the surface, Hawaii is viewed as America’s 50th state. However, some argue that since the US’s annexation of Hawaii, the territory remains under illegal occupation.
Native American Towns were founded centuries, and in some cases millennia, before Columbus. Explore these living communities that long predate European settlement.
Fueled by expansionist ambitions and border disputes, the often overlooked Mexican-American War reshaped the North American continent.
Among the chiefs and warriors who defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn were four Native American women. Here is their story.
His enthusiasm for the railroad earned him his nutty nickname of Crazy Judah, but Theodore Judah would prove himself one of the greatest geniuses of railroad history!
From the coasts of New England to the deserts of New Mexico, here are seven of America’s oldest towns and cities.