Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, ...

For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end.

London In mid-19th-century America, one of the biggest social issues was slavery. And it was slavery that propelled some of the country’s most remarkable data visualizations: “slave maps.” ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day as one of the pre-eminent thinkers, writers and lecturers in America. History has only ...