American Culture

Women in America have not always enjoyed the same basic rights as men, e.g. the right to hold public office, the right to own property and the right to vote. Particularly in Colonial times,...

New York was one of the original thirteen colonies of the United States of America, transitioning from Spanish rule to Dutch and British colonization over the course of many decades. It ultimately...

The factors that led to the start of the American Revolutionary War are debatable, depending on which historian you ask. The easy answer is to pinpoint the action-and-reaction regarding the...

The U.S. flag is a complex and often politically charged symbol of the nation it represents. It contains 50 stars in a field of blue and 13 stripes alternating between red and white. The number of...

The American flag has always been a much-recognized symbol of the country, regardless of the changes that it has gone through in its existence.

From 1777 to 1791, Vermont was disputed territory between the colonies of New Hampshire and New York. This made family life there particularly difficult, as there was often a shortage of goods and...

The clothing of the Southern colonies said a lot about the status of the people who wore them. A glance would tell an onlooker whether someone was prosperous and belonged to the upper class, or if...

Colonial American women's rights were restricted by the patriarchal view of English Common Law. As in England, women were viewed as chattel and had no individual legal rights. However, American...

Colonial life in North America was a mix of various conditions and nationalities. The aims of each mother country were different, and the geography of North America also shaped colonial life....

It was typically upper-class American colonial parents who would hire tutors or send their children off to private schools. Those in the middle class, who were unable to afford a private school...

Colonial Connecticut's natural resources, combined with its prosperous agricultural economy, helped to lay the foundation for a state that would lead the new nation in pioneering innovative...

Travel in Colonial Times was not easy. Much of the Colonies was still a wilderness, and it took weeks to get from one part to another. The colonists took on the challenge, and their methods of...

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was among the original colonial settlements in the area that is now the United States. Settled by English colonists in 1630, the colony was centered in Boston and...

The tobacco plant belongs to a weedy family of plants known as the nightshades; many members of the family are poisonous. When cured, the leaves of the tobacco plant can be smoked or chewed, or...

Founded from the very beginning as profit-making business ventures, England's colonies in North America quickly became integrated into a larger imperial economy that serviced the needs of the...

The American colonists were hard workers. There was always something that needed to be done. Everything they used needed to be made. The skilled workers helped the whole community by using their...

Abundant land was an important feature of colonial America, and the opportunity to become a land owner was a powerful lure for those who decided to make the voyage across the Atlantic. Colonial...

Colonial America families were busy. They had to continually work so that everything they used would get made and so they would have food to eat. They felt that it was important to educate their...

The origins of 16th-century witchcraft were changing social, economic and religious conditions in Europe and America. The desire to find a scapegoat for the change resulted in a genocide known as...