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Nov 12, 2025 · About half of the original group died from disease and starvation. Likely to promote a political alliance, the local Wampanoag decided to help the colonists, teaching them how to …

Dolley Madison was an American first lady (1809–17), the wife of James Madison, fourth president of the United States. Raised in the plain style of her Quaker family, she was …

It revealed his teaching, often described as “sweet as honey,” as in his later title doctor mellifluus. It was a love song supreme: “The Father is never fully known if He is not loved perfectly.”

As the head of the government of the United States, the president is arguably the most powerful government official in the world. The president is elected to a four-year term via an electoral …

Owners of enslaved people in the South reacted to the 1831 Nat Turner slave revolt in Virginia by passing laws to discourage antislavery activism and prevent the teaching of enslaved people …

A timeline covering the origins and history of Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the United States. After Reconstruction southern legislatures passed laws requiring …

The late 18th and early 19th centuries created a college-building boom, increasing the number of schools from 25 colleges in 1800 to 241 colleges in 1860; the variety of schools to include …

Claudette Colvin is an American woman who was arrested as a teenager in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman. Her protest was one of several by Black women …

Oct 28, 2024 · Prosperity gospel is the teaching in Protestant Christianity that faith—expressed through positive thoughts, positive declarations, and donations to the church—draws health, …