How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? William
Arizona Territory, April 30, 1871. The canyon known as Aravaipa lies still in the predawn darkness,
A whole genre of movies is based on a relatively short period of nineteenth-century American history
In 1850, 13-year-old Olive Oatman and her family set off on the perilous journey by foot from Missou
Fort Laramie was once a stockade where European fur traders and Native Americans lived together peac
Despite having fought alongside them, President Andrew Jackson hated Native Nations. In the early 18
North America was never virgin territory. For thousands of years it has been home to established nat
The British have surrendered, they’ll be leaving soon. Now the Americans have a new and arguably har
The Declaration of Independence establishes the ideals on which this break away nation founds itself
The infamous Boston Tea Party sees colonists dressed as Native Americans dump British tea in the sur
From sugar to paper, a series of taxes in the 1760s spark outrage amongst American colonists that sn
We're all about the Benjamins. Franklin is unquestionably the most well-rounded of the Founding Fath
Often given less attention than the other Founding Fathers, John Adams is no less significant. Not o
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot
Thomas Jefferson is one of the most complex figures in the whole American Revolution. A child of the
Everybody knows Washington as the strapping, powerful general and then president who helped to overt
Deerfield, February 1704. The small, puritan town of roughly 300 inhabitants in western Massachusett
One of the most famous names in American history, Pocahontas had an extraordinary life. She was the
The Empire that dare not speak its name. America was born through an explicit rejection of empire as
In 1877 Queen Victoria took on the title Empress of India, a nation which she undoubtedly had close
Across 1851, over 6,000,000 people went to London to see the Great Exhibition. Designed to showcase
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