Brief overview of the George H. W. Bush administration policies on finance and spending.

Brief description of Panama and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiated by President George Bush and ratified during the Clinton administration.

Brief overview of G. W. Bush administration policy and the collapse of the Soviet Union effectively ending the Cold War.

After the Civil War, there was some impetus to modernize the South's economy to make it more industrialized and less agrarian. It never gained traction while sharecropping and tenant farming did, ensuring the persistence of rural...

The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) presented its ninth Teachers History Institute on June 4-8, 2007. It was funded by Humanities Tennessee and Mrs. B.W. Grimes. Taking as its theme "Voices of Opportunity: Industrialization...

CGFA provides five paintings in this online gallery: "American Gothic", "Stone City", "Self-Portrait", "Daughters of the Revolution", and "Return from Bohemia". Images only, with the briefest of information about title, date, medium, and...

This is a very brief article on the Sauk Indians, who were part of the Algonquin Indians. Read about their involvement in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.

From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section briefly explains how Commissioner George W. Manypenny visited native tribes in 1853 in order to negotiate treaties that would take away their land so...

This site from the University of Groningen provides a good exposition of the well known imagist poet, Ezra Pound. Includes links to T.S. Eliot and W. C. Williams.

A historic look at the earliest wave of Russian immigration to the United States, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued up to the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920s. With details about how World War I...

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.