Using the example of Italian-Americans, history professor and author Vincent J. Cannato argues that the exchange of cultures and ideas between native-born Americans and immigrants positively influences society.
Read about villages set up to bring perpetrators and survivors of genocide together in reconciliation.
This article explains the ins and outs of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and why it was significant to the future of the United States.
An entrepreneur applies themes from a hit musical to his career choices.
Sakena Yacoobi’s education gave her the opportunity to live comfortably in the United States, but she felt called to educate girls in her homeland despite daunting challenges. Hear about her heroic choice in her own words.
Read four articles written during the 1930s for a glimpse of how a dictator’s growing power was perceived at the time.
Read about what archaeologists excavating a site in modern-day Turkey have determined.
Click this link to learn about the only known document in which an African-American Union soldier describes a significant Civil War battle.
Boby Duval, a former soccer player who was imprisoned for speaking out against the corrupt Haitian government of ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, urges the world to remember Duvalier’s crimes and to make sure history does not repeat itself.
Protests against the Vietnam War increased in size and scale from the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Learn why more people started to oppose the war.
