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

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...

Taverns and saloons were an integral part of Irish and German immigrants’ lives and social connections in the 19th century. Social Turners, a German American gymnastics club, founded its Chicago ...

1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly imaginative. Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start ...

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

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

Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

PEOPLE's new special issue, Reasons to Love California, celebrates cinema set on the West Coast Tom Gliatto reviews the ...

An image depicting teetotaler women protesting the consumption of alcohol actually has origins as a satirical publicity still ...

Nazune Menka is an assistant professor of law and director of the Center for Indian Law and Policy at Seattle University. She joins us to share more about Elk v. Wilkins and the lasting impact it ...