Chronicles of the story of the first American-English dictionary's creator, revealing his close associations with George Washington and Ben Franklin as well as

George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas

For many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitefield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in the 1700s. Whi

As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largel

How Native Americans contributed to the early American Republic and its Constitution.