History Lessons

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 ...

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, ...