An ancient cellar was found beneath a controversial American school, leading to an interesting discovery of its contents.

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

Before there were DMs or selfies, there were watercolour self-portraits, and an American artist boldly used one to send a ...

Amid the excavation of part of the city's first cemetery, an archaeology firm has found more than 1,100 graves filled with 19th century artifacts.

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

The United States has an urgent obligation to do so, ... Unlike 19th-century Comanches, Kiowas, or Apaches, 21st-century cartels have vast resources and mature conduits to the rest of the world.

“In the 19th century, people very much believed that things like railroads, telegraphs and national newspapers would bring the nation together, and they didn’t. In fact, they pushed us further apart.

You’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today’s edition: Few things in U.S. history functioned as poorly as the spoils system, the 19th-century ...

Construction workers in northeast Florida have unearthed a piece of 19th-century history buried beneath the oldest city in the United States.. Florida Department of Transportation crews were ...