U.S. History - to 1945

The document which created the United States as a sovereign territory with its own self-determining government was also the document which c...

To understand the 1920s, one must first take a look at the years leading up to them. Ordinary citizens in the years from 1913 to 1920 in the...

In April 1917, the United States formally declared war. The first American troops arrived in Europe in June 1917, and their initial particip...

General Pershing became most famous for leading the United States Army in World War One. But many years earlier, he took courageous steps to...

Communist spies in North America had more than one function. They gathered intelligence, but other tasks often had higher priority. Beyond...

Although the Cold War is usually defined as starting in the mid-1940s, Soviet espionage efforts inside the United States started decades ear...

After winning the election of 1808, James Madison became the fourth president of the United States in 1809. Arguably, however, his most sign...