U.S. History - to 1945

The presidency of Calvin Coolidge began unexpectedly with the death of President Warren Harding in August 1923. As vice president, Coolidge ...

The diplomatic efforts of the Coolidge presidency, taking place as they did between the two world wars and during the prosperity of the 1920...

Prompted with the words 'Revolution' and 'Declaration', most students will produce the idea of the Declaration of Independen...

The inhabitants of North America suffered in many ways prior to 1775. As John Locke had noted a century earlier, people endure a lot of abus...

The business of finding spies who've lodged themselves as "moles" in one's government is difficult. Once they've been ...

Historians use the phrase "Red Scare" to refer to more than one period of time. The first was roughly from 1919 to 1921. But what ...

To understand the American Revolution, one must begin much earlier than the actual start of hostilities in April 1775 at Lexington and Conco...