Hiring by America’s employers picked up a bit in August from July’s tepid pace, and the unemployment rate dipped for the ...
Early America’s obsession with the West was inspired in part by early 1830s artists like George Catlin. His paintings and ...
New York City itself housed one of the largest urban slave populations in North America: Around four in ... however—like Aquila Giles, in 1796—made more complex plans to retain a person ...
Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.
Louisiana Purchase, early settlers in Mississippi and Louisiana had the ability to vaccinate themselves and the enslaved ...
The book, written by Amelia Simmons, was published in 1796. Titled "American Cookery ... believe pumpkin to be native to ...
The 1796 election to succeed George Washington as ... interviewing him as we walked through vast marble hallways, he would greet North Carolina constituents who stopped him, introducing me as ...
The 1796 election to succeed George Washington as the second president ... When I covered him in the 1990s, interviewing him as we walked through vast marble hallways, he would greet North Carolina ...
Many Mississippi Territory settlers were saved from smallpox in the early 19th century because of actions taken by William C.
In 1901, a broken tombstone from the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown was rediscovered in ...