U.S. History - to 1945

Germans had arrived in North America as early as 1683. They quickly became a significant part of the economy. By the time the United State...

When President Woodrow Wilson revealed the deep-seated racism that motivated his policies, civil rights leaders took action. Two leaders in ...

People are often at their most creative when facing urgent problems. The Great Depression was a nationwide financial collapse, and individua...

The United States became an independent nation in 1776, and the war to defend that independence against British attacks ended the early 1780...

Although colonialism and imperialism existed in the ancient world, the modern political paradigm of imperialist colonialism was sired primar...

Although the concepts of ‘anti-colonialism’ and ‘anti-imperialism’ can be traced back to the times when Roman soldiers occupied parts of Eur...

At different points in time during its history, the American labor union movement has embraced both pro-communist and anti-communist passion...