The American Philosophical Society's new exhibit for the 250th birthday of America documents daily life in Philadelphia during the fevered days of the Revolutionary War.

The “Join, or Die” political cartoon appeared in Benjamin ... could never accept such an outcome as American independence. The loss of its colonies threatened British commercial supremacy ...

Alamy “Plague on you,” cries Brother Jonathan in an 1813 political cartoon. He wears a colonial hat and a mischievous ... a curator at the National Museum of American History, says that ...

an emblem of the “New Heaven” of the American colonies. By the early 18th century, she was known by the less diminutive “Columbia,” and she became ubiquitous in political cartoons ...

The budget proposal seeks a sweeping restructuring of the nation’s domestic priorities reflective of the president's first ...

The political cartoon exploded as lithography became more widespread, and cartoonists weighed in on all sides of every major event of Mexico’s turbulent first decades, from the Mexican-American ...

The White House is unveiling President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget, a sweeping framework proposing steep reductions in ...

Having left an indelible mark on popular culture, we explore five songs that successfully evoked George Orwell's dystopian vision in '1984'.

The common narrative of American independence describes a swift separation of the colonies from a nebulous entity called “the British,” positioning American identity as being in opposition to British ...

The American Philosophical ... city-columnist view of the colonial city. Its wide array of objects, artwork, and materials, including maps, prints, political cartoons, and newspapers, document ...

Teachers and students can access the most recent History Subject Syllabus in PDF format from this page, which also includes ...