At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Michelle Commander is preserving the truth of African American history and culture.
European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
Survival as a colonist meant enduring hard labor and rigid hierarchies in a rural world shaped by inequality and lack of privacy. USC Dornsife experts explain.
The United States boasts the largest economy in the world. What makes America’s financial engine so powerful, and will the country stay in first place?
The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity — an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait. USC’s Peter Mancall explains.
STORY, PHOTOS and VIDEO: “These are old documents, but they are still alive in a way,” says USC doctoral student Sharon Salgado Martinez.
PODCAST: The president sits down with one of the nation’s leading scholars of early North America to discuss his new book Contested Continent, the deeper forces that shaped the nation’s founding, and the lasting value of studying history.
USC is the only university on the tour, an exhibition that brings some of America’s most significant founding-era documents to communities around the country.
USC experts describe how the prisoners used found materials like shells and ironwood to create objects of both utility and beauty — and better bear the unbearable.
The law professor and legal analyst visited USC’s University Park Campus to discuss his latest book, Rage and the Republic.
