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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...

During the spring and summer of 1814, the British war efforts in North America took on a new life. The first defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe...

Although never President, Henry Clay dominated the American political landscape in the first half of the nineteenth century and remains one of the...

John C. Calhoun served as one of the most influential politicians in the United States during the antebellum era, and his shifting political loyalties...

BATTLE MAP | American Battlefield Trust’s map of the major battles of the Southern Campaign, 1776 to 1781

To protect British merchants and creditors from depreciated colonial currency, this act regulated currency, abolishing the colonies' paper currency in...

National Park Service historian Dennis Frye describes the fateful events of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859.

"Guilford Courthouse [National Military Park], the first Revolutionary War battlefield set aside as a national park, is important not only for the...

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...