If you think there are a lot of protests in the Un...  ...d wages—happened in 1768. At the time, most Americans did some farming to support their families, devel...  ...ween the upper and lower classes was at odds with American ideals. Some historians believe factory workers&m...  ...down, with only Sunday...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...clear that the war was all but over and that the American colonies had won. That was good news for the col...  ...e Articles of Confederation, which served as the American constitution from 1781 until it was replaced by...  ...ten today.But the mutiny...

The following is an article from Uncle John's 24-K...  ...e from Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader. American history might have been written in French or Spanish. Her...

The new country known as the United States of Amer...  ...as a term of disrespect, but like Yankee Doodle, Americans took a stereotype and shook it back at those who...  ...more sinister one. Winifred Morgan, author of An American Icon: Brother Jonathan and American Identity se...

On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war o...  ...ted States declared war on the German Empire. For Americans , that was the beginning of World War I, even thou...  ...r years in Europe. That set up a dichotomy in how Americans treat the history of that war, reflected...

The United States bought 828,000 square miles in 1...  ...d become the country's busiest trading port. When Americans started to move into New Orleans, they found the...  ...h the entrenched French creoles made the incoming Americans crazy. The first was infrastructure: when the U.S...  ...s.All this shocked the...

Hearing about a teen girl who met with President Abraham Lincoln for thirty minutes a day over a five month period may make you think of affairs, scandals and inappropriate behavior.But there was nothing untoward about 1...

The hit series South Park came from humble beginni...  ...er short before "The Spirit Of Christmas" called " American History ", which was written and narrated by Parker's coll...

Before we had postcards, refrigerator magnets, and...  ...etimes not even that much. The National Museum of American History accepted such mementos, and last year presented t...  ...he stories behind them. Collectors Weekly: Have Americans always collected souvenirs?William L. Bird: Yes,...  ...ors Weekly. (Im...

[http://youtu.be/yRZZpk_9k8E] (YouTube link)Texas...  ...and young people not coming up with his name. But American students should know who won the Civil War, and w...