Growing out of a settlement founded in 1788, Cincinnati was the first major American city established after the Revolutionary War. It was a boomtown during much of the 19th century, thriving after ...

Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States had been mostly a nation of farmers, who lived in the country. Indeed, immigrants came to America seeking land that they could farm.

HARTFORD — Frederick Douglass, the great American intellectual, activist, and abolitionist of the 19th century, had a clairvoyance about the power of images. He sat for more than 160 photo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A craft brewery has opened in a 19th-century building in Morrow, and the concept plays heavily into the building's storied ...

Even as nineteenth-century New York grew into America’s richest city, prominent figures noted its urban districts’ depravity. Davy Crockett, who had seen a lot on the American frontier, toured the ...

Nestled in an alley behind rowhouses in West Baltimore’s Hollins Market neighborhood, standalone watermelon, crates of ...

America’s rise to industrial prominence wasn’t fueled by tariffs but by entrepreneurship, innovation, resource abundance, and the fruitful deployment of capital and labor. Those citing ...

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 ...

As author Andrew A. Robichaud notes in the 2019 book Animal City: The Domestication of America, dog-powered machines were being advertised for sale in the U.S. as early as the 1820s, and really ...