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

Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start of the 19th century, the United States ... which these innovations in transportation and communications helped facilitate.

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

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

America’s economic growth in the nineteenth century coincided with explosive population expansion ... Perhaps most tellingly, productivity growth in sectors that were not trade-exposed, like ...

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

Replaying the tariff wars of the 19th century could restore the status quo of American dominance. But this, too, is an illusion. The privileges of historic empires cannot be restored simply by ...

Bachrach/Getty ImagesWhat do you think of when you hear the phrase “old money?” Often, the term refers to families who have ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

To understand what made the late 19th century gilded, I spoke with Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, a mammoth history of America between the end of the ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump wants to take America back to what he considers the good old days: the 1800s. He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K.