Civics

The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by a Federalist Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798 at a time when Adams feared the possibility of war with France.

In this essay, the author describes the Nativism movement, capturing the ways in which it dips and surges based on immigration cycles.

In 1830, the government began systematically removing all Native Americans from the Eastern United States. The removal of Cherokees from Georgia in 1838 has become known as the Trail of Tears. But there were, in fact, many such trails, as the Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles and other tribes were forced to abandon their homelands.

The discovery of a memoir by one of President Madison's slaves sheds light on the role slavery played in the White House.