History Lessons

How a disputed 1804 agreement, a divided Sauk leadership, and a desperate return across the Mississippi led to ...

How distinct nations built a shared system of government, and how that government has continued through colonial rivalry, ...

A prophet’s message, a town of many nations, and a disputed treaty raised a question on which U.S. ...

Political independence did not automatically create a shared American culture. A Connecticut schoolteacher believed schoolbooks and language could ...

What happened to the Cherokee people during the forced removal of 1838–39, and how the Cherokee Nation endured, ...

How a Cherokee merchant became one of his nation's longest-serving leaders, and how the Cherokee Nation used law, ...

Sequoyah did not invent the Cherokee language. He developed a writing system for it, one that Cherokee people ...

In 1871, Cornell College promoted a longtime teacher to professor and, by its own account, paid her the ...

The 1854 law that organized two new territories, reopened the fight over slavery's expansion, and set the stage ...

How one family's homestead records — not just the books they inspired — show what it actually took ...

What the 1830 law authorized, how "exchange" became coercive in practice, and how five nations experienced removal differently ...

From an orphaned Carolina childhood to the White House — the full record of a consequential and contested ...