United States History Books

Written by Selma to Montgomery NHT Park Ranger Theresa L. Hall, A March for All: Selma’s Voting Rights Movement shows the conviction and perseveran...

"Another such victory would ruin the British Army," Charles James Fox stated before the House of Commons, when news reached London of the skirmish ...

The Confederate prison camp at Andersonville recorded 12,290 deaths within its 26-acre confines at the conclusion of the American Civil War. During...

Perhaps the most well documented but understudied gem of America’s Industrial Revolution is preserved at Springfield Armory National Historical Sit...

Who Were the Original Foodies?Beyond their legacy as revolutionaries and politicians, the Founding Fathers of America were first and foremost a gro...

“Through the winter of 1820-1821, John and Michael worked in the woods near Southwest Harbor to support themselves, hoping to accumulate enough mon...

Even at an early age, Frederick Douglass understood that knowledge led to freedom and that the written word could lead to change. As a formerly ens...

James A. Garfield is often remembered mostly for being the second American president to be assassinated, after Abraham Lincoln. For a while, histor...

The legacies forged from Mammoth Cave guides, like Stephen Bishop, Mat and Nick Bransford, Ed Bishop, Bob Lively, and Ed Hawkins, were as permanent...

During a hot summer in 1848, a convention was held by the Women of Seneca County, NY to discuss the social, civil, and religious conditions of wome...

The name Mark Thrash lives on as legend for good reason. He was a folklore institution even during Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Pa...

Learn about the first president of the US from author Peter Hannaford. In The Essential George Washington, he collects observations on the nation's...

In 1903 and 1904, the Hensleys, and their relatives the Gibbons, moved to Brush Mountain. While there, they carved out new farms on the remote moun...

Fortress. Redoubt. Stronghold. Tower. Castle. Bastion. No matter the word for them, forts across the United States have stood the test of time and ...

The life of William HowardTaft displays a beautiful consistency and coherence, the sort which few lives have, because it was infused with one anima...