Sometimes, it’s hard to grasp just how different the United States looked several centuries ago. Before modern homes, sleek ...

The first flags adopted by our colonial forebears were symbolic of their struggles with the wilderness of the new land. Archeological digs in northern India, dating around 3,500 B.C., have uncovered a ...

These early American history legends may be conventional wisdom, and some are even taught in school, but they definitely are not facts. The following myths originated from poems, stories that changed ...

Tucked in a corner of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood is the historic Palmer Cemetery, the final resting place of Revolutionary War heroes, politicians and some of the earliest American ...

Introduction: the experience of early American technology -- Technology in early America: a view from the 1990s -- The exhilaration of early American technology: an essay -- Lost, hidden, obstructed ...

Reading early American handwriting -- Guidelines for reading old documents -- Abbreviations and contractions -- Terms -- Numbers and Roman numerals -- Dates and the calendar change -- Sample alphabets ...

When the English king granted Virginia a royal charter in 1624, the Church of England (the Anglican Church) became the established church of the colony. Tax monies supported the clergy and the church.