AP US History

James Abram Garfield was born on 19 November 1831 in Orange Township, Ohio, into circumstances that gave little hint he…

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2 July 1908, into a Black family that valued education, discipline and…

By 1781, the American War of Independence had dragged on for six exhausting years. The early drama of Lexington, Concord,…

By the autumn of 1871, Chicago was a booming city that had grown faster than its own common sense. In…

In the mid-1970s, the small town of Circleville was not the sort of place where mysteries were supposed to happen.…

Sally Ride’s journey into space was historic, but her deeper impact was felt on Earth. She did not simply become…

On the morning of 15 July 1997, Miami Beach was already alive with heat, colour and routine. Palm trees swayed…

On the morning of 7 November 1940, a slender suspension bridge stretching across the Tacoma Narrows in Washington State tore…

In the early 1980s, a thick cloud of fear settled over Seattle and its neighbouring communities. Young women, many vulnerable,…

Sitting Bull remains one of the most respected and influential figures in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North…