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

Born into slavery in a Dutch-speaking area of New England, Sojourner Truth fought to free herself and then others, becoming one of the best-known abolitionist activists in America. She even succeeded ...

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

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will be suspending its oversight of the labs that conduct safety and ...

For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end.

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

On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...

Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life ...

Malinda Russell was a culinary pioneer in the middle of the 19th century whose “Domestic Cook Book” was the first cookbook ...

Over the course of the 20th century, in state after state and city after city, once-robust systems of mass transit gave way ...

More than four years after a fatal on-set shooting, Joel Souza's feature about a misanthropic fugitive on the run with his ...

With April 15’s tax day still fresh in mind, this Behind the News explores the origin of the federal income tax and finds ...