Lowell Factory Girls of the 19th Century
During the first half of the 1800s, girls and young women from throughout New England were recruited to process cotton…
John Scopes and the Teaching of Evolution
In the mid-1920s, many young Americans flaunted long-established Victorian culture. Women were voting, illegal booze was flowing through speakeasies, and…
John O’Sullivan and America’s Manifest Destiny
When leaders wish to conquer foreign lands, they invariably put forth a list of justifications. In America in the 1840s,…
Japanese Internment Camps in the United States
Just off of US Highway 395, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, motorists can find one of the…
Chinese Immigrants and the Iron Road
On a bright May day in 1869, railroad workers, businessmen, and government officials gathered in Utah for an historic event….