Indeed, immigrants came to America seeking land that they could farm. But throughout the nineteenth century, the population living in cities rose faster than the rural population. As the 1800s ...

In the last half of the 19th century, America underwent a series of changes ... A technological revolution had taken hold in the country's cities, with new factories employing thousands of ...

Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start of the 19th century, the United States ... mightily to the prosperity of New York City and brought commercial civilization to ...

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