The 19th century was a period of great societal unrest and change. Multiple large-scale battles were waged across the world, from the Napoleonic Wars to the American Civil War. Many movies have been ...

Amos Akerman may be the most consequential attorney general you’ve never heard of. Under President Ulysses S. Grant he gave federal teeth to the new 14th Amendment, personally leading a successful ...

There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and when I discuss the deep history of political division in our country, ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.

SOME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America First ...

Many Mexican Americans remember that California became part of the United States after a 19th century war that cost Mexico more than half its territory. By Jazmine Ulloa As they have sought to justify ...