President Donald Trump is trying to push a very particular type of populism from a period of America's past, conservative analyst David Brooks wrote for The New York Times — and it will ultimately ...

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 ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

Many assume Judaism has always been a closed, ethnically-bound faith, but 19th-century America tells a different story. A resident of Brownstown, West Virginia, Walker had been “for some time ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...

Across furniture, silver, folk and outsider art, manuscripts, painting and more, Christie’s specialists give us an insider look at important objects of American history on offer this January.

Fordham professor Tyesha Maddox discussed Caribbean immigrants' impact on Black American culture, leadership, and community ...

In other words, to understand Trump is to recognize that he wants to bring a 19th-century foreign policy into the 21st century. Immediate and instant access to the full searchable library of tens ...