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 ...

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

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

who gets to be an American citizen. Nonetheless, even in the highly racialized political environment of the late 19th century, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed an expansive view of birthright ...