The Archive

From a Dublin Charity Concert to the Foundling Hospital: 1742 to 1754

How Twelve Years of Revenue Measures Broke an Empire: 1763 to 1775

How Americans Decided What Property Was and Who Could Take It: 1776 to 1788

Noteworthy Events From America's Birth Year

How Thirteen Free and Independent States Became One Nation: 1776 to 1788

How Boulton and Watt Turned a Mine Pump into a Rotative Engine: 1776 to 1788

How Free Exercise Became a Right Rather Than a Favor: 1776 to 1788

How The Wealth of Nations reached Parliament while its author enforced the laws it condemned: 1776 to 1788

How a lone motion became an organized campaign and Parliament's first slave trade law: 1776 to 1788

How a Nation Without Banks Learned to Borrow: 1776 to 1788

How the Youngest Colony Lost Its Capital and Chose the Union: 1776 to 1788

The secret marriage, the royal wedding, and the debts of the future George IV: 1784 to 1796

From Royal Debt to Paper Assignats to the Gold of Italy: 1784 to 1796

John Sevier, John Tipton, William Blount, and the twelve-year road to the sixteenth state: 1784 to 1796

The Potomac, the Constitution, the first presidency, and the twelve years Washington spent trying to go home: 1784 to 1796

How Boulton and Watt Spent Their Last Twelve Patent Years: 1789 to 1801

How a mosquito-infested stretch of swampland on the Potomac became the most recognizable address on Earth, through a backroom dinner deal, a fired French engineer, and an Irish architect's borrowed blueprint.

How the First Justices Built a Court While Riding the Circuits: 1789 to 1801

Bribery, speculation, and the burning of the Yazoo Act: 1789 to 1801

How the United States built a financial system, weathered its first panics, and handed it to its critics: 1789 to 1801

How a Scottish fur trader reached the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and the Pacific in 1793, and wrote the book Thomas Jefferson read before sending Lewis and Clark west

From the Seizure of Church Lands to the Clerical Oath, the Schism, and Napoleon's Concordat with Pius VII: 1789 to 1801

How the Federalists built a government that worked, nearly broke it defending it, and handed it to their rivals: 1789 to 1801

How a Cast-Off Wife Built a Rival Court and Survived a Secret Inquiry: 1797 to 1809

How Jefferson's Two Gambles Became One Story: 1802 to 1814

From a London Lodging to the Silver Mines of Peru: 1802 to 1814

Jefferson, Madison, and the Burning of Washington: 1802 to 1814

War, Revolution, and the Collapse of Spanish Authority: 1804 to 1816

Debt, a lost ship, and a father's last request: 1810 to 1822

From a London Workshop to a Bavarian Cloister: 1810 to 1822

How a Seventy-Four-Day Republic Became Four American States

How a Transplanted Court Built the Institutions That Made Independence Possible from 1810 to 1822

How San Salvador Challenged Spain, Guatemala, and Mexico: 1810 to 1822

Revolution, Exile, and the Founding of a Continental Republic: 1810 to 1822

How Hidalgo's Failed Revolt Led to Iturbide's Empire: 1810 to 1822

What Monroe's Warning to Europe Left Unsaid About the United States: 1823 to 1835

How Mexico Invited American Settlers Into Texas and Lost It: 1823 to 1835

In 1907 the American film business lived in New York and Chicago. Twelve years later it had a permanent address in southern California, the world market, and a company owned by its own stars.

Franklin Roosevelt passed the bar in 1907 and spent the next twelve years turning a family name into a political career, ending as the man who wound up the Navy's war in Europe.

From the Columbia Lectures to the Wartime Agencies: How the Federal Government Grew, 1907 to 1919

How Twelve Years of Prosecution Remade John D. Rockefeller's Fortune: 1907 to 1919

In 1907 professional football was a disgrace and Jim Thorpe was an amateur. By 1919 Thorpe had lost two Olympic gold medals for taking money, and the professional game had rebuilt its reputation by paying him.

Three Future Rulers in the Habsburg Capital and the Empire That Fell Around Them: 1907 to 1919

Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential campaign slogan was The New Freedom. This article discusses Wilson's speeches and agenda.

In 1913, the radio industry began to be regulated by national gov'ts and the Marconi Company became the largest radio operation in the US.

Winston Churchill's political career was put to the test during WWI. He was demoted at one point but rose the ranks at the end of the war.

The movement towards the eighteenth amendment began in 1913, however alcohol was a prominent political issue throughout American history.

The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920. However, the battle to achieve it reached a new level in 1913.

The Seventeenth Amendment is one of the least recognized constitutional amendments, yet it had a giant impact on American politics.

In 1913, Nikola Tesla received a patent for his groundbreaking invention: the Tesla Turbine. Discover the history, mechanics, and potential applications of this revolutionary device.

In 1913, Ludwig Von Mises became an unpaid professor at Vienna University beginning his career as an Austrian economist.

The impact of the Sixteenth Amendment and income taxes created a turning point in American tax history. Learn why in this article.

In 1913, the British Empire reached its height just prior to WWI starting in 1914. Britain occupied a quarter of the world.

Henry Ford created the moving assembly line in 1913, changing the nature of work, forever. By 1920, Ford had complete ownership in the company and it was poised for growth.

The Abadan Oil Refinery began to produce oil under ownership of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1913 until it nearly went bankrupt and the British government acquired a 51 percent stake in the company in 1914.

In 1913, King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II gathered in Berlin for a royal wedding, the last great meeting of Europe’s monarch cousins before World War I.

Margaret Sanger was the primary advocate of birth-control before it was legal. She committed crimes in its name and even went to jail to promote birth-control and radical feminism.

In 1912-1913, the Cushing-Drumright oil field began to explode with activity after Thomas B. Slick made his initial discovery in 1912. This was how Cushing began.

In 1913, Mahatma Gandhi's political career began to accelerate, starting with a South African mine workers march to protest discrimination.

In 1913, Andrew Carnegie dedicated the Peace Palace in the Hague, Netherlands which he was a major contributor towards and would house several organizations dedicated to international peace.

C.I. Scofield is a controversial historical figure who started the Philadelphia School of the Bible in 1914.

The construction of the Australian Commonwealth's capital, Canberra, began in 1913 and the process of choosing was a decades-long process.

GK Chesterton was a prolific writer during the early and mid 20th century. This article shares his commentary on issues from 1913 to 1920.

In 1913, the Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve Banking System and in May 1920, the old banking system was abolished completely

In 1913, the Dodge Brothers informed Henry Ford that they would stop working for Ford, and were going to start their own automobile company.

The use of steam from thermal springs to generate geothermal energy began on a commercial scale in 1913 in Italy, followed by California a couple years later.

In 1913, Woodrow Wilson started the tradition of delivering the State of the Union Address in an in person speech. He gave his last speech as president in December 1920.

General Motors and Chevrolet are something thought of a synonymous, and this is thanks to the work of Billy Durant who partnered with Louis Chevrolet in 1911.

The period from 1913 to 1920 encompassed events which ultimately led to Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom.

In 1913, First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and the the British began to plan for converting their Royal Navy to oil-powered versus coal-powered.

Learn why the Weimar Republic collapsed after World War I. Explore hyperinflation, the Treaty of Versailles, political extremism, and the rise of Hitler in Germany before and during 1920–1932.

A Brief American History Lesson When America began, it is common knowledge that money and taxes were one of the primary reasons, if not...