The Treaty of Fort Pitt, 1778: The First U.S.–American Indian Treaty
byIn June 1777, Henry Hamilton, the British lieutenant governor for Quebec and Superintendent for Indian Affairs at Detroit, held a council at Detroit with…
In June 1777, Henry Hamilton, the British lieutenant governor for Quebec and Superintendent for Indian Affairs at Detroit, held a council at Detroit with…
On November 8, 1808, in his eighth State of the Union address, Thomas Jefferson uttered the now famous lines, “For a people who are…
For a few terrifying minutes the air was filled with the sound of gunshots, war-whoops and the screams of the dying. It was over…