America’s founders are often remembered as flawless heroes who carved a new world out of courage and conviction. But behind their stirring words and timeless ideals lay deep contradictions that ...
Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...
“The Nation Makers” by Howard Pyle, 1902, public domain. The American Founding is a unique and remarkable moment in human history, marking the beginning of a new order of the ages. It was the first ...
Mr. Woodhouse is a documentary filmmaker and the author of the newsletter Social Studies. In 1764, perhaps 200 largely Irish settlers from Pennsylvania’s back country rode to Philadelphia to confront ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results