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We're History Team. We’re History tells the story of how America became what it is today. Written and edited by scholars, it is real history, with all its triumphs, failures, twists, and ironies.

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Sacco and Vanzetti demonstration, March 1925. (Photo: Boston Public Library)

Six Famous American Executions

July 31, 2015By We're History

John Brown, the Dakota Hanging, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg…

Council between General Crook and Geronimo. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Five Civil War Generals Who Went on to Fight in the Indian Wars

May 8, 2015By We're History

William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, and more…

Jim Key, The Educated Horse at the 1904 World's Fair. (Photo: Missouri History Museum)

Ten Famous American Horses

May 1, 2015By We're History

Traveller, Comanche, Trigger, Mr. Ed, Secretariat, and more…

The Surrender At Appomattox. (Photo: New York Public Library)

Seven Things You Didn’t Know about Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox

April 10, 2015By We're History

Seven surprising items about Lee’s Surrender on April 9, 1865.

Ten Myths in American History

April 3, 2015By We're History

In honor of our 100th article, here are ten myths that our contributors have debunked.

Group of young white men turn a car on its side during Detroit riots of 1943

Rioting: An American Tradition

Looking at the rioters in Baltimore, or any other place, in isolation misses the point.

The Story of America in Twelve Cemeteries

Our Past is Written in Stone

Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day

Mothers’ Day did not start as a way to encourage people to be nice to their mothers, but as an impassioned effort by women to end war forever.

The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862

Exploring an important step toward the abolition of slavery in the United States

Bruce Gillers - October 13, 2021:
The Boy Scout Council in Chinle Arizona was the name of the [...]

Carolyn Marvin - February 11, 2021:
Example: no proof of any silk dress...part of the poem written later. [...]

KateThomas - December 8, 2020:
Thank you. This has given me a greater insight into the historian [...]

Michael C. Lucas - August 5, 2020:
The American Government did not make a deal for Forty Acres and [...]