"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’ ...

Novel by Lauren Willig is based on the true story of the first recorded murder trial in the U.S. What fueled the constant public attention on the case was the involvement of Alexander Hamilton and ...

In arguing for more tariffs on goods imported to the United States, President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. was its “richest” or “wealthiest” during the late 1800s and early 1900s ...

In contrast, Trump has pushed presidential bounds and was a profligate spender in his first term. Another difference: ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

For example, in a 2000 paper, Douglas Irwin, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College, wrote: “That tariffs coincided with rapid growth in the late nineteenth century does not imply a ...

The Great Gatsby is more than cocktail parties and color symbolism.

A bill introduced to the Congress aiming to ban Chinese citizens purchasing real estate properties has had some Chinese conservative activists think twice about their support to the Republicans.

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...