But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

What is one to make of the career of Dr. Joseph Dennis Harris, which once soared far beyond the strictures of race and class ...

1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly imaginative. Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start ...

Paintings by Robert Seldon Duncanson and Winslow Homer are coming in May to the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Economic inequality and the Gilded Age By the late 19th century, America had become a nation of extremes. Industrialization concentrated wealth in the hands of tycoons like John D. Rockefeller and ...

Proponents argued that tariffs would shield American workers from the socially deleterious consequences of the industrial revolution that were already observable by the early 19th century in ...