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Madison Whipple
Madison Whipple is from St. Louis, Missouri and has spent her whole life loving history. She graduated in 2021 from university and subsequently moved to Spain to teach high school at a bilingual school. She particularly enjoyed teaching history classes in English and longed to return to academic writing. Now she has written over 50 articles for TheCollector, focusing particularly on American history, though she also loves writing about women's history. Madison currently lives in Valencia, Spain and in her spare time she enjoys going to museums, reading, and recording her podcast, Where Past Meets Planet.
Education:University of Arkansas, 2021BA HistoryExpertise:Articles by Madison Whipple
The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States but left exceptions that still impact the country.
The state of Franklin is a forgotten folly of the early United States, a settlement whose government came and went in four years.
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a philosophy that revises the causes of the US Civil War, erasing the narrative of slavery from the fight between brothers.
American culture developed rapidly in the 1950s, with its hallmarks shown through music, entertainment, politics, and counterculture.
Though an unofficial and unelected role, the Office of the First Lady has a social and political influence throughout the United States, especially during election season.
The largest eruption of the last 10,000 years occurred on an island of Indonesia in 1815, sending much of the world into gloom.
Sybil Ludington was a Revolutionary War heroine who rode to warn of incoming Redcoats and to rally troops.
In the medieval world, life shifted as people moved into cities. Populations grew, and these eight cities became the most notable in the world.