U.S. History

Chris Calton details the early attempts of ocean warfare in the Civil War.

Chris Calton recounts the Trail of Blood on Ice: an attempt by neutral fugitive Indians to escape to Kansas.

Jackson deserves a cherished place in the hearts of all Americans: By the time he left office, for the first time and the last time in the history of America, he had wiped out all of our public debt.

Chris Calton recounts the division of the Cherokee nation into those who favored the Union and those who wanted to ally with the Confederacy.

Chris Calton presents some important pre-war background history on the Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Seminoles.

In a slave system, threats of brutality underlay the whole relationship.

America went to war 100 years ago for no good reason, and certainly not for the “general interest” of national security.

Hostilities in the North Atlantic provided the context — or rather, pretext — for America's participation.

The war came to the United States as the "fulfillment," the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life.

After months of growing tension between the United States and Britain, a single event almost plunges the two countries into war.