U.S. History

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.

Since each person votes for different reasons, we can't morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy.

William Seward's repeated diplomatic blunders cause Britain to send troops to Canada in preparation for a possible war with the United States. 

Not every neighborhood resident likes the trick-or-treat tradition of Halloween. But an answer can be found in a better adherence to property rights.

The peddler was the middle class man who prided himself on his initiative, self-reliance, independence and, above all, his integrity.