American History

Soldiers at the siege of Yorktown

Dirty Little Secret

To see the Revolutionary war through the eyes of slaves is to better understand why so many of them fought for the crown

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Home Is the Sailor

One hundred years ago this month, John Paul Jones was welcomed home with great fanfare at the U.S. Naval Academy. But was the body really his?

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Stars and Strife

A clash of cultures at Boston's City Hall in 1976 symbolized the city's years-long confrontation with the busing of schoolchildren

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Review of 'The Worst Hard Time'

The untold story of those who survived the great American Dust Bowl

Sayyid Qutb

A Lesson In Hate

How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war

The Astoria Column serves as a memorial for the explorers Lewis and Clark with President Jefferson.

Lewis and Clark: The Journey Ends

The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark expedition

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Formative Years

Early lessons last a lifetime

The members of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (center, front row) ruled against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs.

When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost

Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the justices who stopped his New Deal programs, a president overreaches

Excavating a 17th-century well.

Rethinking Jamestown

America's first permanent colonists have been considered incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a drought—not indolence—that almost did them in

Vikings sailing to Iceland

The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America

The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas

In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson, left, and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes, but public opinion sided with Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and the Election of 1800

For seven days, as the two presidential candidates maneuvered and schemed, the fate of the young republic hung in the ballots

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Four Fateful Elections

What if Lincoln had lost, or if Theodore Roosevelt had won? How did Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan emerge to lead a dispirited nation?

Francis Scott Key looks out on the namesake of his poem, the Star-Spangled Banner.

Francis Scott Key, the Reluctant Patriot

The Washington lawyer was an unlikely candidate to write the national anthem; he was against America’s entry into the War of 1812 from the outset

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Off to the Races

Before the American Revolution, no Thoroughbred did more for racing's growing popularity than a plucky mare named Selima

Today, visitors to downtown San Antonio find a weathered limestone church—63 feet wide and 33 feet tall at its hallowed hump. Says historian Stephen L. Hardin, "The first impression of so many who come here is, 'This is it?'"

Remembering the Alamo

John Lee Hancock's epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the massacre in a more historically accurate light

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Maine's Lost Colony

Archeologists uncover an early American settlement that history forgot

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Variety Show

Off and running in the new year

Britannia offers solace and a promise of compensation for her exiled American-born Loyalists

Divided Loyalties

Descended from American Colonists who fled north rather than join the revolution, Canada's Tories still raise their tankards to King George

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The Man Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance

The schoolroom staple didn't originally include "under God," even though it was created by an ordained minister

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Flashbacks

Reconsidering JFK and Sylvia Plath

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