Planned films on folk hero John Henry, luminaries of jazz, and traditional Chinese music were suddenly cut off from promised ...

April 2025 marks 250 years since the momentous events at Lexington and Concord—the opening salvos of the American Revolution.

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

Learn fundamentals of neoclassical architecture, including the history behind this 18th-century style and famous ...

A partnership between RIT history department, RIT Press, and the Rochester Public Library relaunched the Rochester History ...

The Marlette Flume was hardly Nevada’s only 19th-century engineering wonder: the Silver State’s rise was built on ambitious ...

In this reimagined doctrine, the West is no longer a community of shared values, but a zone of expected compliance under ...

Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Innovation, capital, and labor powered U.S. industrial advances, not trade barriers. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs--and his promised trade agenda—draw partly from a narrative ...

As the world reels from US President Donald Trump's tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars since the ...