History and Culture

Explore how past events have influenced and shaped our world. These resources and guides will guide you through the facts, interpretations, and lessons of history, from the earliest civilizations to the present day. Teachers will find useful resources for teaching history in the classroom.

  • Police Officers in Civil Service
    What Is Civil Service? Definition and Examples
  • Hands holding up a crown
    What Is Lèse-Majesté?
  • Photograph of journalist Dorothy Day
    Biography of Dorothy Day, Founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
  • Impatiens
    The Less-Than-Pleasant Meanings of 13 Little-Known Flowers
  • Joshua Norton
    Biography of Emperor Joshua Norton
  • The History of Popular New Year's Traditions
  • Gerald LK Smith With Dr Francis E Townsend Flanking Father Charles Coughlin 1936
    Dr. Francis Townsend, Old Age Public Pension Organizer
  • Black and white photograph of Jimmy Hoffa testifying before a Senate committee.
    Biography of Jimmy Hoffa, Legendary Teamsters Boss
  • 'Signing the Declaration of Independence, 28th June 1776' - painting by John Trumbull
    Top Books About The Age of Enlightenment
  • President Andrew Jackson and his cabinet succumb to the charms of 'Celeste', a dainty figure representing Peggy O'Neil, the wife of War Secretary John Eaton.
    The Petticoat Affair: Scandal in Jackson's Cabinet
  • Ulysses S. Grant
    The Whiskey Ring: Bribery Scandal of the 1870s
  • Engraved portrait of Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States.
    What Was the Burr Conspiracy?
  • Robert Hanssen
    Robert Hanssen, FBI Agent Who Became a Soviet Mole
  • A Bonus Army veterans’ encampment in Washington, D.C. being burned in 1932
    The 1932 March of the Veterans Bonus Army
  • St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City in the 1890s
    The Colorful History of the St. Patrick's Day Parade
  • Portrait of Charles Darwin
    Biography of Charles Darwin, Originator of the Theory of Evolution
  • Archival newspaper illustration related to the passage of the Civil Rights Bill
    The Civil Rights Act of 1866: History and Impact
  • From October 1 through 16, 2013, the United States federal government entered a shutdown
    Causes and Effects of Government Shutdowns
  • Full color drawing of the Louisiana Purchase map.
    Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
  • Illustration of the disaster on the Brooklyn Bridge
    Brooklyn Bridge Disaster
  • President Hoover with Reconstruction Finance Corporation Members
    Reconstruction Finance Corporation: Definition and Legacy
  • Party scene from the movie “The Great Gatsby”
    The Lost Generation and the Writers Who Described Their World
  • Men holding a Soil Conservation District sign
    7 New Deal Programs That Still Exist Today
  • Painting of large white rectangular mansion with burned out windows but largely with an in tact exterior
    8 of the Scariest Days in America
  • George Washington on dollar bill
    George Washington's First Inauguration
  • Aaron Burr, who nearly won the deadlocked election of 1800
    Presidential Election of 1800 Ended in a Tie
  • Man wearing sandwich sign looking for a job during the Great Depression\
    How the Great Depression Altered US Foreign Policy
  • Engraving of English Puritans
    Puritanism for Beginners
  • Engraved portrait of President James Madison
    Many Americans Opposed the War of 1812
  • Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan
    Biography of Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam Leader
  • Heritage Steam Train Passing By Landscape Against Sky
    Effect of Railroads on the United States
  • Cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt reforming the New York Police
    Theodore Roosevelt and the New York Police Department
  • Engraving of Edwards by R Babson & J Andrews
    The Great Awakening of the Early 18th Century
  • Lithograph of the SS Great Western
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Steamships
  • Two servicemen stand beside the Pullman Building and train cars with locked arms and a bottle of liquor during the 1894 Chicago Pullman Strike
    The Pullman Strike of 1894
  • Immigrant Poverty
    Who Were the Muckrakers in the Journalism Industry?
  • Causes of the Great Depression
    Top 5 Causes of the Great Depression
  • Increase Mather
    Spectral Evidence and the Salem Witch Trials
  • Pen and ink drawing of the HMS Beagle on the water.
    Charles Darwin and His Voyage Aboard H.M.S. Beagle
  • Devil making sign, engraving from Compendium Maleficarum, by Francesco Maria Guazzo, 1626, Italy
    History of Witches Signing the Devil's Book
  • The Boston Tea Party, 1773
    The History of British Taxation in the American Colonies
  • Painting of a whaling ship boiling blubber.
    Objects Made From the Whaling Industry
  • Zebulon Pike's Mysterious Western Expeditions
  • Victorian Christmas scene, ca. 1895.
    The History of Christmas Traditions
  • Golden Spike National Monument.
    5 Facts About the Transcontinental Railroad
  • Sutter's Mill
    The 49ers and the California Gold Rush
  • Emma Lazarus, author of "The New Colossus"
    A Poem by Emma Lazarus Changed the Meaning of Lady Liberty
  • Native American soldiers on the ground during battle
    Pontiac's Rebellion and Smallpox as a Weapon
  • Casselman Bridge Cumberland Maryland
    The National Road, America's First Major Highway
  • Painting of Lewis and Clark Expedition
    York, the Enslaved Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Lithograph of The Express Train by Currier and Ives
    Why We Have Time Zones
  • Coxey's Army
    Coxey's Army: 1894 March of Unemployed Workers
  • A black and white photo of two men in 1920s business suits
    The Protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930
  • A pencil sketch of starving Irish people in the 1840s.
    The Great Irish Famine Was a Turning Point for Ireland and America
  • Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen sitting in front of the national debt clock
    History of the US Federal Budget Deficit
  • The history of the Brooklyn Bridge. Designed by John Roebling, construction lasted 14 years, cost $15 million to build, 20-30 lives lost during construction, grand opening: May 24, 1883.
    Building the Brooklyn Bridge
  • Hindenburg Airship Exploding
    The Hindenburg Disaster
  • Political Cartoon of a Robber Baron, Edward H. Harriman, with the railroads of America all heading toward his mouth. The caption reads 'Design for a Union Station.'
    6 Robber Barons From America's Past
  • Election procession in the 1840 presidential campaign
    The Election of 1840
  • US President Reagan and Soviet president Gorbachev shake hands
    Successes and Failures of Détente in the Cold War
  • Map showing the eight counties that made up the State of Franklin in 1786.
    The Failed State of Franklin
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