History Lessons

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How a shrewd Gold Rush businesswoman built a fortune, backed the abolitionist cause, and took racial exclusion in ...

How a Missouri farmwife turned a biscuit, a hotel, and a hard-won legal right into a life that ...

On August 10, 1821, Missouri became the 24th state. Getting there required one of the most consequential — ...

How a chance discovery by James Marshall at a remote sawmill transformed California, the United States, and the ...

Signed into law on August 5, 1861, America's first federal income tax was enacted as part of Congress's ...

In 1823, President James Monroe issued a declaration that reshaped relations between the United States, Latin America, and ...

From merchants and missionaries to gold seekers and pioneer families, one western Missouri town stood at the center ...

James K. Polk served as the 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. Although he ...

Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, transforming commerce, accelerating westward expansion, ...

How a debt-ridden Missouri frontiersman's desperate gamble opened a 900-mile highway to the American Southwest and helped knit ...

On July 21, 1861, thousands of Americans awoke with a sense of anticipation. Some were soldiers preparing for ...

From Enslavement to Citizenship: How a woman born into slavery became one of the most influential and powerful ...