On July 18, 1863, on...
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 inspired her to write ...
In a brief essay that appeared ca. 1925, poet Katharine Lee...
John Philip Sousa (1854–1932), an American composer of...
Samuel Francis Smith was a twenty-four-year-old Baptist seminary student in Massachusetts when he wrote the lyrics of “America (My Country, ’Tis of Thee),” the...
In 1898, the US Navy was small—especially compared to the...
Following the Japanese bombardment of the US...
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
National Jazz Museum in Harlem