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 ...

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

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

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

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

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

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

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

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

I represented the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab at the Defense Innovation Unit summit in Warsaw. A Ukrainian commander there ...

Billy the Kid is probably the most famous — infamous? — 19th century American outlaw. He’s been the subject of many books, ...