The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...

For hundreds of years in America, the most important application of windmills was to provide power to pump for water and it ...

in the same way that the 'Wild West' conjures competing memories and histories of the American West in the 19th century. Manifest Destiny refers to a belief in a preordained right to explore, colonize ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land from the grasp of others.

A resident of Brownstown, West Virginia, Walker had been ... in public life reflects an often-overlooked reality of 19th-century American Jewish history: significant Jewish leaders and ...

Manifest Destiny refers to a belief in a preordained right to explore, colonize and exploit a given territory, as white, European settlers did in the 19th century in the USA and the American West ...

In this exhibit, you can explore the history of horses in the American West. Horses first evolved ... formed deep cultural and economic bonds that shaped the West, and persist into the 21st century.

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

Netflix's new historical fiction series "American Primeval" is coming under ... a fictionalized interpretation of events in mid-19th century Utah. While historical fiction can be illuminating ...

Historical and sociological perspectives reveal why certain societies or subgroups resist change, often rooted in cultural ...

Explore the resilience of the Cheyenne Valley settlers and their legacy in Wisconsin's largest rural African American ...