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 fill ...

The piece also stated that Jost was the son of a Jewish convert and had been encouraged by his father to practice the faith. In 1857, The Israelite described how a Christian woman in Landau, Germany, ...

Trump's declarative re-mounting of McKinley begins not with the 25th president's performance as "Tariff Man," but rather with ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day as one of the pre-eminent thinkers, writers and lecturers in America. History has only ...

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 ...

Yes. Though the Utah War has been called “bloodless,” in reality, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah perpetrated a horrific ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

using a 19th century case that denied citizenship to a Native American. The 14th Amendment reads that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction ...

The Netflix series American Primeval, directed by Peter Berg, is an American Frontier set in the 19th century and dramatizes ...