Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Roosevelt’s Manic Start: The Chaos of the New Deal

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The election of 1932 was an expression of desperate hope. Poverty and unemployment were at high levels and threatened to go even higher. The...

Turning the Corner: How and When Slavery Began to End in the Americas

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Students who know even a small amount about United States History, or American History, are aware that slavery existed. That’s not new knowl...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

African-American Leaders during the Great Depression: The Government Is Incapable, so Citizens Take Action

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During the Great Depression, the ingenuity of ordinary citizens was fueled by their challenging circumstances. The overworked phrases of “th...
Friday, March 25, 2022

American Women Advance in the 19th Century: The 1800s as an Era of Growth for Women’s Rights in the United States

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During the 1800s, the legal and social status of women in the United States improved significantly. Historians can document this development...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

A Painful Struggle: America Works to Defeat Slavery

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The development of the United States is one of continuously expanding freedom. From times before the nation’s beginning in 1776, the America...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Some People Are Citizens, Others Are Residents: What’s the Difference?

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Usually people are citizens of the country in which they live, but not always. A person can live in one country, and yet be a citizen of a d...
Friday, January 7, 2022

The American Identity: A Nation Built on the Idea of Freedom

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In the first few decades of the twenty-first century, the word ‘identity’ has gained a new, larger, and different role in society and in pol...