W. Kesler Jackson

When James Madison of Virginia, later the fourth president of the United States, wrote that “Congress shall make ...

Of Irish heritage, James J. Hill grew up on the Canadian frontier. Despite the loss of vision in ...

When President Ulysses S. Grant—helped by Don Pedro II, emperor of Brazil—hand-cranked the 40-foot-tall, 600-ton engine to life, ...

Modern American society still talks about and references the American Revolution all the time. Its battlefields are well ...

In 1838, a Maryland slave named Frederick Bailey, age 20, escaped from bondage, making use of the recently ...

On a day when the peak is shrouded by mist, passengers on the Mount Washington cog railway feel ...

In 1614, a Patuxet lad named Tisquantum was kidnapped by English explorer Thomas Hunt. The Patuxet lived in ...

Benjamin Bonneville was born in France, the godson of none other than Thomas Paine, who called the boy ...

George Washington, universally acclaimed nowadays as one of our best presidents, encountered a little bad press in his ...

By the time George Clymer was 1 year old, both his mother and his father were dead. Orphaned, ...

In 1774, an Englishman named Thomas Paine, having met Benjamin Franklin and received letters of introduction from him, ...

The Enlightenment saw the emergence of the “philosophes” in Europe—intellectuals who were unafraid to publicly challenge ... well, ...

Upon seceding from Britain, her thirteen former colonies immediately began to lay the foundations of an independent humanities ...

In the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War, Boston wasn’t the only scene of intense friction ...