On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...

The Newburgh Gorhams were originally formed in New York City in 1886 by Ambrose Davis and Phillip Snipper, and moved to ...

Off the coast of Key West lies the pristine Dry Tortugas, a cluster of remote islands where coral reefs, historical forts, ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

That came from pilots of the Kellett Aircraft Corp. testing the XR-8, a craft developed in the 1940s for the United States Army Air Force. From mixing it up in the kitchen to “mixing it up” on ...

Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start of the 19th century, the United States was still a place where many people ate what they grew and many women made the family clothes.

warning they’ll raise prices on American electronics rather than bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. “I understand they have 19th century policies of McKinley, but they need to ...

Nations pursuing “spheres of influence” set the stage for World War I.

What is one to make of the career of Dr. Joseph Dennis Harris, which once soared far beyond the strictures of race and class ...

If I had to choose the most sensible plan for settling the American West that was foolishly discarded by politicians with the power to make it so, I’d go with John Wesley Powell’s scheme to arrange ...

The Trump administration has flirted with the idea of selling the U.S. Postal Service to the highest bidder. Postal workers ...