Aus religioser Flucht keimte Freiheit: Quaker in Pennsylvania, Hugenotten in Nieuw Amsterdam, Katholiken in Maryland webten Toleranz in die Kolonien - Penns Holztor offnete Juden und Atheisten gleichermaen.
What happens when the newly formed government of the United States imposes a crushing tax on the exact citizens who just fought a bloody revolution to escape taxation?
How does a desperate, peaceful religious movement promising spiritual salvation ultimately provoke one of the deadliest military massacres in American history?
How did a peaceful student protest against the Vietnam War on the streets of New York suddenly transform into a violent, bloody brawl perpetrated by hundreds of mobilized construction workers?
Mexiko befindet sich in einem der blutigsten Machtkampfe seiner jungeren Geschichte: dem Krieg zwischen dem Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) und dem Sinaloa-Kartell.
What happens when a wooden passenger ship, loaded with women and children for a church picnic, catches fire in the middle of a major river, and the safety equipment turns out to be entirely fake?
How does a highly organized syndicate of private distillers and corrupt federal agents manage to quietly steal millions of dollars directly from the United States Treasury, right under the nose of the President?
What happens when an entire American town is trapped inside a toxic, inescapable cloud of poisonous industrial gas for five continuous days, while the corporation responsible refuses to shut down its furnaces?
What happens when thousands of tons of highly volatile solid rocket fuel, stockpiled for the American Space Shuttle program, are left sitting in plastic barrels right next to a growing suburban metropolis?
What happens when almost every single politician in a state legislature is secretly bribed to pass a law selling off millions of acres of public land to private shell companies for literal pennies on the dollar?
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, bekannt als El Mencho, steht im Zentrum einer der machtigsten und brutalsten Organisationen des Drogenhandels: dem Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
How does a simple, peaceful labor rally demanding an eight-hour workday end with a bomb blast, police firing into crowds, and the execution of men who never even threw the explosive?
Vor den Schiffen lag ein Kontinent der Vielfalt: Vom Mississippi-Moundbuilder-Reich bis zu den Pueblos im Sudwesten, den Irokesen-Konfoderationen und nomadischen Prarievolkern pragten komplexe Gesellschaften das Land - Ackerbau, Handel, spirituelle Netze uber Tausende Meilen.
What happens when the Secretary of the Interior secretly sells off the United States Navy's emergency fuel supply to private oil barons in exchange for a briefcase full of cash?
How does a visionary inventor manage to excavate and build a fully functional, luxurious subway line directly beneath the busiest street in New York City without the corrupt politicians who ran the city ever finding out?
In 1859, a bankrupt rice merchant named Joshua Norton walked into a newspaper office in San Francisco and declared himself Emperor of the United States.
Im Jahr 1869 stieen Brunnenbauer auf einer Farm in New York auf eine Sensation, die die amerikanische Wissenschaft in den Grundfesten erschuttern sollte: Eine uber drei Meter groe, perfekt versteinerte Leiche eines Giganten.
Aus den 1980er Reaganomics bis Trumps 2024-Wiederwahl weben sich Politik und Pop durch Krisen: Kulturkriege uber Immigration, Tech-Monopole und Klimazorn pragen eine gespaltene Nation.
How does an eleven-man crew successfully infiltrate the purportedly impenetrable Brink's armored car depot in Boston, tie up the guards, and walk away with nearly three million dollars in cash, checks, and money orders without firing a single shot?
How do you completely dominate a political rival and assert absolute authority over a region without ever drawing a weapon or shedding a single drop of blood?
How could nearly five hundred people die in a matter of minutes inside a popular, crowded nightclub without the building ever actually burning to the ground?
In the summer of 1787, while delegates in Philadelphia debated the architecture of a new republic, a quieter act of nation-building unfolded in the halls of a dying Congress.
Long before American settlers carved farms from the Ohio Valley's forests, the land had already absorbed centuries of movement, alliance, and survival.
The Progressive Era and the Rise of American Power explores a transformative period when the United States confronted the challenges of industrialization, political corruption, social inequality, and global ambition.
This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national politics to solve its economic problems, and created a precedent for government regulation of the economy in the twentieth century.
Reconstruction explores one of the most transformative and contested eras in American history: the years after the Civil War, when the United States attempted to rebuild the defeated South, define freedom after slavery, and decide whether democracy could truly include formerly enslaved people.
In May 1869, Major John Wesley Powell, geologist, enthnologist, and geographer set out from Green River, Wyoming, with nine men and four boats to explore the forbidding canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers in Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, which had blocked all central travel routes to the West Coast.
This study considers the subtle and frequently confused relationship of armed force and political control in the British Empire before the American Revolution.
The American West explores one of the most dramatic and contested periods in United States history: the transformation of the West during the nineteenth century.
The United States in World War II tells the dramatic story of America's transformation from a cautious, divided nation into a decisive global superpower.
The Greenback Era is not a financial history; rather, it is an attempt to locate the source of political power in the crucial Reconstruction years through a socio-economic study of American financial conflict during the years 1865 to 1879.
