Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole ...

Was 1775 really the main pivot point in the fight for independence? 1760? 1607? The Founders themselves weren’t sure.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...