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 ...

Their “city upon a hill” was a theocracy that ... of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York James Madison advocated separating ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

The bones of a 19th-century toddler show medical experimentation ... “During the industrialization period, major cities had mirror or hat factories, where craftsmen frequently used mercury ...