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

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

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What was once the Baltimore City Eastern High Service Pumping Station is finding a new life as an incubator campus for ...

For decades, Norfolk Island was regarded as a place suitable only for the “newly wed or the nearly dead”. Meanwhile, its neighbour, Lord Howe Island, has long been loved for its lagoon and the ...

Museums are a great way to spend time in a new city, while also learning in the process. These are the best free, ...

Trump says America was at its richest in the late 1800s. Here are the facts. The president recently said: 'We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country.' As President ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

The late Queen of England and Ireland was so legendary that her reign was officially crowned the Elizabethan era. But one ...

This book takes those money lessons learned, really a series of frameworks, and makes them accessible for any reader who, ...

The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.