Taverns in Early Massachusetts
In colonial Massachusetts, as in many other American colonies in the 1760s and 1770s, taverns played a critical role in the development of popular resistance…
Early Horse Racing in America
Horse racing in North America began almost as soon as Europeans settled the colonies. The first racetrack, called the New Market, was established in…
General Santa Anna’s Early Military Life
Santa Anna is one of the foremost figures in Mexico’s national history. His long life spanning eighty years was filled with important events and…
The American Lyceums
Lyceums combined education and oratory, two passions of the mid-nineteenth century, in the 1830’s to create a movement that was both popular and educational….
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
Every year there are dozens of scholarly books and articles that are published describing the founding period of the United States. The debate between…
A Historical Economic Policy “Mercantilism”
Mercantilism is one of the most influential economic doctrines in the history of economics; however, the school that dominated European thought for two centuries…