America’s First Failure at Government: The Articles of Confederation
After the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the thirteen American colonies needed a government to replace the British system they were attempting to overthrow. The Founding Fathers’ first attempt at...
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The witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1692 represent the most famous Puritan moment in American history; it is the one thing most people think of when they think of...
View ArticleThe Road to Suffrage: Female Voters in New Jersey Before the Nineteenth...
American women did not receive the right to vote until 1920, right? This is a common misconception. A century and a half before the constitutional amendment granting all U.S. women the right to vote,...
View ArticleFive Myths and Misconceptions About the U.S. Constitution
The United States Constitution is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States, yet there are many myths and misconceptions persist among the American public concerning its...
View ArticleArchiving America’s Intemperate Past: Primary Research and the Woman’s...
What do rum, a 19th-century Spanish Guinean missionary station, and the “ladies of the Oberlin W.C.T.U” have in common? All three elements, disparate as they may seem, appear in an 1899 letter sent by...
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