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A diminutive, persuasive Virginian hijacked the Constitutional Convention and forced the moderates to accept a national government with vastly expanded powers

A bold dream to connect the Hudson to the Great Lakes by canal created a transportation revolution

Spain’s attack on Fort Caroline and brutal slaughter of its inhabitants ended France’s colonial interests on the East Coast

The telegraph was an even more dramatic innovation in its day than the Internet

Banker J. P. Morgan rescued the dollar and bailed out the nation

The British seize Manhattan from the Dutch—and alter the trajectory of North American history

While lauded for their 1903 flight, the Wright brothers were not convinced of their airplane’s reliability to sustain long, controlled flights until October 1905

A Great Lakes Indian rebellion against the British changed the balance forever between Indian and colonist

Although a draw, the fight between the Monitor and Virginia decisively ushered in the modern era

More than a million children participated in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine trials of 1954, the largest public health experiment in American History