About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Genevive, Missouri. Established in 1750 by the French, Ste. Genevive reveals much about what it was like t

The has an exhibit called . This exhibit allows you to see treaties the United States has made with American Indian nations and learn more about those treaties and their outcomes. is the Associate D

July 4, 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States. In three short years, we will be marking the 250th anniversary of these events. How are

Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because, on June 19, 1865,

People are complicated is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoughts are black and white.What we see instead is that people

For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and in the administrative units it created to govern this vast territor

How did the Continental Congress approach creating military forces that could go toe-to-toe with the British military during the American War for Independence? joins us to answer part of that questio

In 1682, the first Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Delaware counties met in Chester, Pennsylvania, and adopted the Great Law, a humanitarian code that guaranteed the people of Pennsylvania liberty

On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately-funded, joint-stock company established the first, permanent

History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. It also allows us to look back and see how far weve come as people and societies. Of course, history also has the power to show us how li