1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly imaginative. Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start ...

In a stunning shift in American economic policy, Donald Trump has yanked up tariffs across the board. On April 2nd, speaking ...

Innovation, capital, and labor powered U.S. industrial advances, not trade barriers. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs--and his promised trade agenda—draw partly from a narrative ...

President Trump often complains of an America in decline, but it is America’s economic heft that has allowed him to bully the world with enormous tariffs, Fareed argues. In reality, it is the tariffs ...

‘The issue of immigration is a matter of humanity’: Mexican citizens react to US anti-immigration commercials ...

The course gives an overview of American literature in the nineteenth century with major emphasis on the American Renaissance, realism, naturalism, and the local color movement. The syllabus consists ...

Billy the Kid is probably the most famous — infamous? — 19th century American outlaw. He’s been the subject of many books, ...

When he says that America should be "great," that includes being a great power. But Trump thinks the U.S. should be a great power in the 19th century sense of the term. This means the U.S. should ...

Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, historians said.