After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on ot...

At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as you...

On October 19, 1781, British general Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, ef...

Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independ...

Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the human...

Between 1881 and 1914, more than two million Jews came to America. Most were poor, from the stult...

From its earliest days, Boston decreed that its children be taught to read and write English and ...

In the 19th century, knitters from the Midlands of England, made poor by the increasing flow of w...

This book describes how after a century and a half in New England, the Yankees-direct descendants...