Reverend Peter Fontaine, Defense of Slavery in Virginia George Washington was a wealthy Virginia planter whose life story speaks of the paradoxical attitude of whites of his time toward slavery.

There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and ...

Some time in the late 1500s ... Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution. 1637 - First use of firearms proof-marks. 1750-1850 - Dueling ...

Kanakamedala’s book traces the history of free Black Brooklyn over an 80-year period, from the 1790s to the 1870s. It focuses ...

American Girl Doll remains influential in the lives of many children today and has broadened its approach to history over ...

Erik Nelson's doc revisits a unique experiment in countercultural messaging, when the famed couple stepped in for a week in ...

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Wholesome institutions are as "American ... the time of Ancient Greece and Rome. Apples arrived in the Americas only after the explorations of Christopher Columbus sparked the greatest period ...

A rare copy of the Paul Revere Boston Massacre engraving will be for sale at Virginia's Early American History Auctions.

DIVORCE is now part of everyday American life. It is embedded in our ... into the social and cultural mainstream over a long period of time. Yet this is not the case. Divorce has become an ...

Much of Earth’s population has been voting this year. Where democracies are strained and stressed, is there room for optimism ...