The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

The US president's Gaza 'Riviera' plan revives the various missionary efforts of 19th century American Protestants to colonise Palestine ...

Love will soon be in the air with Valentine’s Day, and as the old saying goes, the way to many of our hearts is through our ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan, due to McKinley’s own love affair with tariffs.

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...

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

During the height of the oyster craze in New York in the 1800s, everyone was eating them at oyster saloons, oyster stalls, and at home. This recipe from 1880 is one of the many, many ways that people ...

The oystermen knew Sandy Ground was a safe haven for them to have the freedom to work, learn and worship where it would not ...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly.