Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

A partnership between RIT history department, RIT Press, and the Rochester Public Library relaunched the Rochester History ...

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 ...

In subsequent eras it became an early Black settlement, shipping port with warehouses and docks, and a location for prisons ...

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 ...

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

To understand what made the late 19th century gilded, I spoke with Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, a mammoth history of America between the end of the ...

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the United States has suffered ... It also led the rural poor in Britain and Europe to leave for the city, setting off a wave of urbanization and ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. See how those policies affected everyday Americans in ...

The United States of America truly presents a melting pot, and this phenomenon is reflected in the very architecture that has ...