McCormick’s reaper revolutionized farming
Find out how Cyrus H. McCormick developed the reaper and revolutionized grain farming in the 1800s.
Rushmore is the world’s largest sculpture
Hugh Earnhart digs into the history of Mount Rushmore. Learn how the idea began, the faces were chosen and the work was completed.
John Adams kept the peace with France
The overriding issue during John Adams' presidency was the question of peace with France. Find out how the second president of the U.S. kept the peace.
Kanagawa Treaty initiated a new era in the Far East
Kanagawa Treaty marked the end of Japan's 220-year-old policy of national seclusion by opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels.
Camels trail paved the way for Route 66
After the 1848 treaty ended war with Mexico, and the U.S. received all of Texas above the Rio Grande, a new form of transportation was needed — the camel.
When Lincoln was thanked by Sojourner Truth
Learn more about the life and work of Sojourner Truth and the time she visited Abraham Lincoln to thank him for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Corps of Discovery paved the way west
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and the rest of the Corps of Discovery were the first white men to cross the western half of the U.S. in 1804.
Social Security Act was part of FDR’s New Deal
Probably the most revolutionary of all the New Deal undertakings was the Social Security Act. Find out how it was created, amended and finally passed.
Moving with a Conestoga or prairie wagon
Learn more about the start of a large migration of Anglo-Saxon pioneers at the end of the War of 1812.
The history of Arlington National Cemetery
Learn who owned Arlington before the Civil War and how it came to be known as Arlington National Cemetery.
