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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 ...

On July 16, 1969, millions of people around the world watched as a towering Saturn V rocket lifted ...

A History of One of America’s Most Consequential Constitutional Changes Ratified July 9, 1868 The Fourteenth Amendment to ...

From Founders to Pioneers: how a Georgia-born surveyor's son became the man who mapped the road to the ...

On the afternoon of July 4, 1776, the same day the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, ...

On June 12, 1987, standing before the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech ...

The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, formally ended the American Revolutionary War and marked one ...

On June 1, 1980, a new television network signed on with an ambitious and untested idea: broadcasting news ...