Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...

Worcester was growing into an industrial hub, with Ichabod Washburn and his son-in-law, Philip Moen, creating one of the world's biggest wire companies, Washburn & Moen, later American Steel & Wire.

If we want to deploy actual power to block Trump’s vicious agenda once he takes control of the federal government, we will ...

Nearly everything on the American plate is processed, shipped, stored, and sold under refrigeration. In her new book, Nicola Twilley reflects on what it means to be entirely dependent on artificial ...

The blame for the rise of Donald J Trump lies not with the millions of ordinary, law-abiding people who voted for him ...

A tender yearning permeates the traveling career survey of Bronx-born Whitfield Lovell, who forges Black histories from aged ...

This year saw plenty of excellent books, as usual, on the 20th century – but the real gems were revelatory examinations of ...

(Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post) The latter Henry and his Italian-American ... to Colorado in the 1850s, heading to Pueblo for jobs in the farming, smelting and steel industries, with ...

One thing that’s not up for debate is that Republicans, known today as the party of free trade, were an aggressively pro-tariff political party from the GOP’s founding in the 1850s through the ...

In Bull Creek Cemetery in West Deer lies Hance “Job” McMurdy, who died in 1850 in a flash flood on ... mark on the future of Black Americans and American history. She started her public ...

From cutlery that's now considered crucial to appliances that have revolutionised the way we cook, these genius food inventions were all fiercely mocked when they first appeared.