History Lessons

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On February 2, 1848, representatives of the United States and Mexico gathered in a small town outside Mexico ...

Early miners searching for gold along California’s American River, where the Gold Rush began. On January 24, 1848, ...

On a cold January day in 1790, six men gathered quietly in New York City to begin an ...

On the brink of a tremendous precipice, two visitors ride mules along Grand View Trail in the Grand ...

On December 31, 1879, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison staged one of the most iconic public exhibitions in ...

The Bill of Rights — the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution — remains one of the ...

When delegates concluded the Constitutional Convention in September 1787, each state faced the monumental decision of whether to ...

Thanksgiving has long been a cherished American tradition, but its date has not always been fixed. For much ...

Each year on November 11, Americans pause to honor the men and women who have served in the ...

On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony cast a vote in the presidential election, an act that would ...

By 1938, Orson Welles was already recognized as a prodigy. Born in 1915, he grew up with a ...

On October 20, 1803, the United States Senate voted to approve the treaty that made the Louisiana Purchase ...