As Secretary of the Treasury in the Washington administration, Alexander Hamilton laid the foundations of the American financial system.
In 1514, the Portuguese king sent Pope Leo X an Indian elephant named Hanno. The animal became a symbol of the papacy’s moral bankruptcy.
Over a hundred years ago, women achieved the right to vote across the United States. What was the impact?
Many can name United States presidents and their accomplishments, but what of their incredible pets?
Alexander Pushkin, a Russian writer and poet, is regarded as the founder of a new literary Russian language, artistically capturing the complex nature of Russian society.
The 19th Amendment declares that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged … on account of sex.” How did women achieve this historic milestone?
The US had achieved Manifest Destiny by 1848 and expanded to the Pacific. What was to be done about the Native Americans in the western interior?
The power of the US federal government was challenged in the early 1830s when southern states resisted a controversial tariff. This was known as the Nullification Crisis.
