The Fugitive Slave Act erased the most basic of constitutional rights for enslaved people and incentivized US Commissioners to support kidnappers.

Confused about the oft-mentioned Alien Enemies Act? This explainer, with links to free peer-reviewed scholarship, may help clear things up.

As vital to the success of industrial New England as the mill girls who toiled in the factories were the women who oversaw their lodging.

Out of Indiana came a beloved wooden innovation that helped change the status of the kitchen in the American home.

Bryan Sinche’s Published by the Author explores the resourcefulness of Black writers of the nineteenth century.

The Treaty of Paris marked the end of the Revolutionary War and the hostilities between Great Britain and the newly independent United States—at least temporarily.

The white pines of New England may have done more than any leaf of tea to kick off the American Revolution.

More than a century ago, Charlotte Cushman presided over a group of queer female artists who supported one another’s creativity and left a pioneering, if overlooked, legacy.

Alexander Hamilton’s anonymous essay challenged the voting citizens of New York to hold fast to the truth when deciding to ratify (or not) the US Constitution.

The creation and propagation of standard penmanship in the American education system is almost as old as the United States itself.