For much of the past four years, Oliver Stone has been working on a 10-part documentary series for Showtime, The Untold History of the United States.. The series — whose budget has gone up from ...

A history of the United States does not lend itself to such treatment, and the author is too sound a scholar and too sincere an artist to attempt, it.

Robert Remini talked about his book [A Short History of the United States] (Harper; October 7, 2008). The historian of the United States House of Representatives presents a history of the United ...

The history of income tax in the United States has a deep meaning originating from the Civil War before it was reintroduced later, just before the U.S. entered World War I.

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States "Untold History" can be irritating -- thought-provoking, yes, but alternately stuffy and shrill. But it's a legitimate rejoinder to the "My ...

More history of the main avenue to getting there, the mortgage. Getty Images. ... What’s compelling and worth pointing out here, is that up to the 1930s in the United States, ...

Description. This lesson looks at how the United States has used tariffs throughout its history to implement trade policy. It looks at the role tariffs have played as a revenue source before the ...

In December 1865, the 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1866, freedmen in Texas organized the first "Jubilee Day" to commemorate the event.

She went to Sweden for an abortion because it was illegal in the United States. At the time, a Gallup poll showed 52 percent of Americans said she did the right thing. Jennifer Holland: ...