Leading up to the Compromise of 1790, two important topics were debated in Congress with such ferocity that both issues had halted in a congressional...
John C. Calhoun served as one of the most influential politicians in the United States during the antebellum era, and his shifting political loyalties...
To protect British merchants and creditors from depreciated colonial currency, this act regulated currency, abolishing the colonies' paper currency in...
Sure, you know that household names like DuPont, American Express and Brooks Brothers have been around forever – but did you know that each of these...
The War of 1812 brought the United States onto the world's stage in a conflict that ranged throughout the American Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast...