Mexico's forgotten 19th-century invaders were fortune seekers who tried repeatedly to colonize the Baja California Peninsula ...

The city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America’s southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran ...

Florida, of all places, has been rebooting intercity passenger rail travel in America. Back in the late 19th century, the oil ...

These Pulitzer Prize books promise extraordinary storytelling that'll move you and make you see the world in new ways.

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 ...

Women artists are out there and not so difficult to find, but once we find them, we have to accept the fact that the art ...

Fairhope originated as an experimental colony, and that spirit remains part of its character. But it now faces a culture war, ...

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman takes us through past attempts to use tariffs to boost domestic industries in countries around ...

The spring issue, edited by Christine Ridarsky, Rochester City Historian, and Rebecca Edwards, RIT professor of history, published April 15. A feature article, written by Edwards, highlights the deaf ...

As the story so often goes, in the late-19th century, America became a prosperous ... They left behind broken cities and devastated local economies. Free trade helped the rich get richer, but ...

In 1839, Samuel Morse was in Paris to obtain a patent for the electro-magnetic telegraph he had developed in America ... the breadth of this mid-19th-century energy. There’s the rush to capture ...

Historically, factory jobs were low paying and grueling. In fact, manufacturing flourished times of economic despair.