This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. In the hot, humid weather of a Philadelphia summer, delegates wrangled, tempers...

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Unlike other cities he had conquered, Moscow sent no delegation of citizens to greet Napoleon.

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. In a city in Holland called Leyden lived a colony of Englishmen. These English...

Junípero Serra was born on the island of Mallorca off the Mediterranean coast of Spain on November 24, 1713.

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. When only an infant, King Henry VI of England had inherited England and...

This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. The news of Cortés’s landing at Vera Cruz filled Montezuma with fear—could the Spaniard be...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. It was a warm, muggy night. Guided by the lights of the town, the men quietly...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. Meanwhile, Juan Diego had climbed the hill of Tepeyac. “Return here tomorrow,”...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. In July 1759, France’s old enemy, the Iroquois Indians, joined the British in...

This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. To weaken Russia, the Germans urged the soviet revolutionaries to take up arms against the...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. The states however did cooperate with the national government in the matter of...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Californio factions could not bury their differences even to face a common foe....

This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. Cortés’s conquest of the mighty Aztec kingdom inspired another Spanish conquistador to find...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. Fear had filled the heart of the Aztec emperor Montezuma when he heard of the...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Between mid-May and early June 1776, the southern colonies, from Georgia to...

This text comes from our book, The American Venture. Since at least the 1850s, women associated with the Temperance movement had been...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. English colonists, especially in Virginia, wanted to be able to cross the...

This text comes from our book, The American Venture. “How are you today, my dear General!” With these words, Gouverneur Morris greeted...

This text comes from our book, The American Venture. One of the most significant acts of Eisenhower’s presidency was his appointment of...