A debate as old as the country itself: When did the Revolution truly begin?
Was 1775 really the main pivot point in the fight for independence? 1760? 1607? The Founders themselves weren’t sure.
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York in American History: The first European explorers
Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), who led his expeditions in service of King Francis I of France. As he sailed ...
The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption.
Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.
Stuck in the past: Trump tariffs and other policies are dragging the U.S. back to the 19th century
The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...
The legacy of the Revolution is still up for grabs
Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...
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What made America great in the Gilded Age?
We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole ...
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What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?
How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...