History Fact of the Week

The History Fact of the Week feature appeared at TeachingAmericanHistory.org in the spring of 2012. The complete series of essays is archived below.

Archive

• The Compromise the Created Our Capital – July 15, 2012
• “There Shall Be Neither Slavery Nor Involuntary Servitude” – July 8, 2012
• The Importance of the Fourth of July – July 1, 2012
• An American Renaissance Man – June 24, 2012
• “Their Finest Hour” – June 17, 2012
• The Beginning of Independence – June 3, 2012
• “My God! Have I missed him?” – May 27, 2012
• The American Red Cross – May 20, 2012
• The Citizen Genet Affair – May 13, 2012
• Rhode Island Goes Rogue – April 29, 2012
• Establishment of the Library of Congress – April 22, 2012
• April 19: The Date that Marked the Beginning of Two Wars – April 15, 2012
• The First Presidential Veto – April 8, 2012
• “The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy” – April 1, 2012
• What Time is it Again? – March 18, 2012
• The Blizzard that Changed History – March 11, 2012
• History of the Flags of the Confederacy – March 4, 2012
• 127th Anniversary of the Washington Monument – February 19, 2012