President Johnson shocked the nation when he ended his bid for reelection in 1968. As early as 1964, Lady Bird had suggested that he might not want to run for a second term.
Enormous crowds greeted the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, during his visit to all 24 states nearly 40 years after the war ended.
In a momentous couple of years, the young United States added more than a million square miles of territory, including Texas and California.
We can’t let the home of one of the great heroes of the American Revolution be demolished.
An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul
Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.
In recent years many voices—both Native-American and white—have questioned whether Indians did in fact invent scalping. What is the evidence?
To call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.
It's one of the oldest folk ballads in our national songbook, but where did it come from? The answer is complex, multi-layered, American.