Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection
...Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Liz Tracey December 14, 2024 Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city...
Winter Holidays
...by Charles Dickens Liz Tracey December 14, 2024 Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or...
The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated
...a long and dangerous fight that saw multiple incidents of deadly violence against those advocating for equal access to the ballot. More to Explore The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz...
“Declaration of Sentiments”: Annotated
...The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2025 Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification of the new US Constitution, the Bill of Rights has become a...
Labor Day: A Celebration of Working in America
...on strike against Ford. But was this a victory? “Now We Can Begin”: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2023 To mark the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the...
The Bill of Rights: Annotated
The origin of the Bill of Rights was less a principled and honorable declaration of the founders’ commitment to fundamental liberties and more a compromise to get the states to...
Marbury v. Madison: Annotated
The 1803 US Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison is often the first case that appears in constitutional law casebooks. This makes sense, as it established the court’s power of...
Celebrating the Fourth of July
...related to the holiday and its history. Independence, Expanded “What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?”: Annotated Liz Tracey July 4, 2023 On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass...
Stonewall National Monument Declaration: Annotated
...to demand equal rights. More to Explore Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated Liz Tracey April 19, 2024 Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny...
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Annotated
The five bills collectively known as The Compromise of 1850 were signed into law by US President Millard Fillmore in an effort to continue the union of the states in...