History Lessons

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How a brutal tactical draw in a Maryland cornfield halted Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North ...

How an eleven-year struggle ended in a negotiated settlement — and how the frontier policy Mexico adopted afterward ...

Independence did not make Texas annexation inevitable. It took nine years, a failed treaty, a change of strategy, ...

Congress declared war less than three weeks after the first clash. Whether the fighting began on American soil ...

Why the first Monday in September belongs to the machinists, carpenters, and mill workers who organized to claim ...

With the Compromise of 1850, Congress converted a crisis over slavery's expansion into five separate laws. The most ...

He was called the “Great Pacificator” and the “Great Compromiser.” His bargains repeatedly deferred the conflicts — over ...

The Donner-Reed Party's catastrophe was the result of a chain of decisions and conditions, not one cause. Tamsen ...

A lawyer with ambitions in Mexican California proposed a shorter road west before he had traveled it himself ...

Expansionists rallied around a slogan demanding U.S. control to 54°40′, near the southern boundary of Russian America—but the ...

Her 1836 journey and the letters she sent home did not create the Oregon Trail migration by themselves—but ...

How a surveyor’s grief over a family tragedy on the Columbia River led him to blaze a safer ...