American History magazine

13/05/2024

Beginning with George Washington, American leaders have looked to the theater to shape their sense of character.

13/05/2024

Many photographers working around Buffalo that awful Friday thought they had made the last image of William McKinley alive and well.

Many photographers working around Buffalo that awful Friday thought they had made the last image of William McKinley alive and well

12/05/2024

This ‘Wisconsin Angel’ championed important changes in hospital care.

This ‘Wisconsin Angel’ championed important changes in hospital care.

12/05/2024

Col. Louis H. Marshall stayed true to the Stars and Stripes and forever became an outcast to his family.

12/05/2024

Freeman Bernstein "nickeled" and dimed the Fuhrer.

11/05/2024

A Russian Jewish immigrant who arrived in New York alone, Polly Adler rose from poverty to become the "best goddamn madam in all America."

11/05/2024

Son of a successful oysterman, George Thomas Downing became a noted activist for Black rights.

10/05/2024

After her husband's untimely death, Yetta Kohn joined forces with her sons and daughter to run the family store, bank and ranch.

After her husband's untimely death, Yetta Kohn joined forces with her sons and daughter to run the family store, bank and ranch.

10/05/2024

The 1962 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Baker v. Carr was so profound, one of the justices had a nervous breakdown.

10/05/2024

Samuel DeGolyer’s Michigan battery fought masterfully during the Vicksburg Campaign.

09/05/2024

Robert Cornelius took his own picture nearly 200 years before the iPhone.

08/05/2024

Sewn into Katharine Dexter McCormick's wardrobe were diaphragms, long available in Europe but since 1873 banned in the United States.

Sewn into Katharine Dexter McCormick's wardrobe were diaphragms, long available in Europe but since 1873 banned in the United States.