American History

Celebrity Profiles

Benjamin Franklin, like many prominent colonial and early national elites, enslaved people for labor and domestic service for much of his early adult life. Historical records an...

history-artifacts

The Liberty Bell was ordered in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of William Penn’s Charter of Privileges. It was cast that y...

history-politics

The Anti-Federalists were Americans who opposed the ratification of the United States Constitution in the late 1780s. Active during the debates over the proposed framework of go...

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The Battle of Fredericksburg (December 11–15, 1862) was a decisive Confederate victory in the American Civil War, fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia. Union Major Ge...

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The term Anglo-Americans refers to people of English descent who migrated to and settled in North America, especially what became the United States, starting in the early 17th c...

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Shays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising in western Massachusetts that began in August 1786 and ended in February 1787. It was led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays and...

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The Battle of Gettysburg occurred primarily in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding countryside of Adams County. Fought July 1–3, 1863, the eng...

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Shays’ Rebellion (1786–1787) was a protest by indebted Massachusetts farmers and Revolutionary War veterans against high taxes, tight credit, and aggressive debt collection....

history-heritage

The object now known as the Liberty Bell was ordered in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of William Penn’s original 1701 Ch...

history-government

George Washington’s Farewell Address, published in September 1796 as a printed essay in newspapers rather than a spoken delivery, is important because it crystallized the core...