Hoping to solve the nation’s mounting dispute over slavery, Stephen Douglas pushes for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The dispute would only grow.
This episode traces the origins of this famous sport back to England in the mid-eighteenth century.
In 1848, female leaders meet at Seneca Falls, New York, to advance the cause of women' s rights in American society.
Before the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, pioneers made their way to Oregon by wagon, along the Oregon Trail.
Gold prospectors flood the territory around Sutter’s Mill, bringing ruin to Sutter and unprecedented growth to California.
The United States engages in one of its most controversial military conflicts, resulting in one of its largest expansions of territory.
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Alamo, Texans regain momentum and defeat the Mexicans.
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren carry out the Indian Removal Act, mandating that Native tribes in the Southeast move to territory west of the Mississippi.
As the American political landscape shifts, a new party rises to power.
The United States adopts a new foreign policy—one that echoes down the ages.
In 1820, Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, America’s response to the growing debate over slavery.