American History

In the 1932 election, Americans grappling with the Great Depression chose Franklin D. Roosevelt over incumbent Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt carried 472 electoral votes to Hoover’...

The Union cause evolved during the war, but its founding objectives were rooted in preserving the United States as one indivisible nation and ending secession. Preservation of t...

The Stamp Act Congress of October 1765 produced a formal public announcement: a Declaration of Rights and grievances that rejected Parliament’s right to tax the colonies witho...

The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 was a colonial legislative summit that convened in New York City in October 1765 in response to the British Stamp Act. Representatives from nine o...

The first conflict of the American Civil War began at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, on April 12–13 April 1861. Confederate forces bombarded the Union-held...

The Anti-Federalists opposed the 1787 Constitution primarily because they believed it concentrated too much power in a distant national government and endangered individual libe...

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was one of the first official African American units raised in the United States during the Civil War. Formed in 1863 after the Emancip...

The Committee of Correspondence was a standing communications body created by local colonial governments and patriot leaders in British North America before and during the Ameri...