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The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere.
- Who Discovered America? Inside The Historical Evidence
- Did Christopher Columbus Discover America?
- Leif Erikson: The Viking Who Found America
- Further Theories About The Discovery of America
When Europeans arrived in the New World, they almost immediately noticed other people who already made a home there. However, they too had to discover America at some point. So when was America discovered — and who actually found it first? Science has shown that during the last ice age, people journeyed across an ancient land bridge connecting mode...
Widely known as the man who discovered America, Christopher Columbusarrived in the Americas in 1492 in what has been described by many historians as the beginning of the Colonial Period. Though the explorer believed he’d reached the East Indies, he was actually in the modern-day Bahamas. Indigenous peoples with fishing spears greeted the men steppi...
Leif Erikson, a Norse explorer from Iceland, had adventuring in his blood. His father Erik the Red had founded the first European settlementon what is now called Greenland in 980 A.D. Born in Iceland around 970 A.D., Erikson likely grew up in Greenland before sailing east to Norway when he was around 30 years old. It was here that King Olaf I Trygg...
In 1937, an influential Catholic group known as the Knights of Columbus successfully lobbied both Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to honor Christopher Columbuswith a national holiday. They were eager to have a Catholic hero celebrated in regard to America’s founding. With the national holiday gaining traction in the decades since then,...
U.S. History Primary Source Timeline. Explore important topics and moments in U.S. history through historical primary sources from the Library of Congress. Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763; The American Revolution, 1763 - 1783; The New Nation, 1783 - 1815; National Expansion and Reform, 1815 - 1880; Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Slavery wasn’t confined to the South. By Michael L. Blakey. Slavery existed in all 13 British Colonies (later to become U.S. states) by the end of the 17th century.
- Women’s Lib was not hostile to men. By Linda Gordon. No social movement, arguably, has been so misrepresented as the 1960s-’70s women’s movement. In these myths, feminists were single, middle class and white; mainly concerned with “sex issues,” such as pornography, abortion rights, sexual harassment and rape; and hostile to men.
- The U.S. is not technically a democracy. By Nancy Isenberg. American “democracy” has never been a democracy at all. John Adams argued that the best form of government was “mixed,” by which he meant elements of a monarchy (Executive), aristocracy (Senate), and democracy (House).
- Vietnam’s communists leaders weren’t the men you think. By Lien-Hang Nguyen. As we near the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Tet Offensive — perhaps the most well-known event of the Vietnam War — it is worth debunking a deeply-held myth regarding Hanoi’s war.
A True History of the United States. Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism. By Daniel A. Sjursen. Best Seller. Part of Truth to Power. Category: U.S. History | Domestic Politics. Paperback $19.95. Jun 01, 2021| ISBN 9781586422530. Buy. Ebook $14.99.
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United States History. As with most nations, the history of the United States contains a number of twists and turns throughout the centuries, from the time of the English colonization of North America up to the modern-day America that we're familiar with.
In United States: History of the United States. The territory represented by the continental United States had, of course, been discovered, perhaps several times, before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. When Columbus arrived, he found the New World inhabited by peoples who in all likelihood had originally come from… Read More; Alabama claims
