Early and 19th Century American literary studies explores the American experience through history, visual studies, philosophy, textual studies and race and gender theory. Skip to Content ... The city ...

In the late 19th century, American cities moved to a soundtrack of clopping and clanking. Horses pulled commuters on streetcars, hauled construction materials for new buildings, carted groceries ...

An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City.

IDEAS Are you too easily distracted? 19th-century Americans could relate. In the category of innovations that make us impatient and harried, the smartphone joins the train, the telegraph, and the ...

Many Americans think of Islam as a religious and moral geography foreign to the American experiment, or at least to its foundational history. This is false, of course. Many of the enslaved West ...

Modern protectionists are desperate to find historical examples of tariffs promoting industrialization and economic growth. To this end, they increasingly argue that 19th-century America’s ...