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Founding a Nation, 1776 - 1789, framing the Constitution

Think of the world you will be living in the rest of your life. Actually, you are already living in it. Groups making demands, sometimes peacefully, sometimes violently but almost always disturbingly. Politicians making promises of a brave new world, or at least one from which the troubles of the day are banished. Mass murders in Africa and the Middle East. The clash of religions. Debates over climate change and threats to the environment, balanced against economic growth. What are you to make o...

Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838 and made his way to New England. By 1841, Douglass was relating his experiences at abolitionist meetings throughout the eastern states. Douglass’s book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), forced him to flee to England as he had revealed his place of escape. However, liberal friends purchased Douglass’s freedom, and he was able to return to Rochester and start his abolitionist newspaper, the North Star. Active in the freedom...

Article: FDR's Second Fireside Chat

Article on Herbert Hoover Protests the New Deal and the Great Depression

Income (Share of income by socioeconomic groups over time), Wealth (Snapshot of concentration of wealth), Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth

The 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same sex marriage was the result of a well-organized movement for the LBGTQ rights that adopted, and in some ways perfected, the tactics of the civil rights movement. The drive for LGBTQ rights is often seen as beginning with the Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969, and the Obergefell decision can be considered the greatest achievement of that movement to date, but of course, there are still mountains to climb.

In December of 2019, a new respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a novel coronavirus was first detected in central China. Within the first five weeks of the outbreak, tens of thousands of people were infected and more than a thousand died. The outbreak has been categorized as a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. Not surprisingly, the virus has been having economic impacts throughout the world. Major companies like Apple, Starbucks, and McDonalds closed stores in...

Notes On The State Of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia, in reply to a series of questions from French diplomat François Barbé-Marbois. The work touches many facets of Virginia, from its geography to its flora to its political economy. In Query XIX below, Jefferson was responding to a question about “the present state of manufactures, commerce, interior and exterior trade” in Virginia.