U.S. History - to 1945

John Jay, writing in The Federalist Papers , addressed the perennial question of government's power versus citizen's rights - only, ...

After Franklin Roosevelt took office in early 1933, he launched numerous programs during his first hundred days in office. These programs - ...

Upon taking office in early 1933, President Roosevelt began to unveil his numerous different plans to create agencies which would intervene ...

President Franklin Roosevelt's famous New Deal programs caused, and still cause, controversy. Although well-intentioned, they were plagu...

Historians and economists have debated the causes of the Great Depression: there is more than one plausible explanation for the economic dow...

Thousands of Germans arrived in the New World, starting in 1683. Most of them started on the mid-Atlantic coast. They sought religious freed...

The end of WWII and beginning of the Cold War are not clearly defined. It became clear to American military intelligence during the war that...