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3 days ago · The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states; the Cold War had begun. African Americans united and organized, and a triumph of the ...
3 days ago · Martin Luther King Jr. stands before a crowd of 250,000 people during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Welcome to a captivating journey through time, as we unveil a remarkable collection ...
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3 days ago · The American Revolution was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain ’s North American colonies that began in 1775 and ended with a peace treaty in 1783. The colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and ...
1 day ago · The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (in the engrossed version but also the original printing), is the founding document of the United States. On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who had convened at the ...
2 days ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
May 1, 2024 · Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. A searchable archive of primary source materials from all eras of American history. Native American and European texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
May 2, 2024 · Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. Comprehensive original essays that target key individuals and “often overlooked secondary figures” of the American Enlightenment such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, and Jonathan Edwards. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1896.
