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

These incredible late 19th century maps offer a glimpse into the urban landscape of America after 1865, post-Civil War, when New York was home to two million and was yet to see widespread electricity.

Schmidt calls the map an exercise in the “Digital Humanities,” where tools from the 1990s are used “to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America.” ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

North America used to have a much more diverse assortment of apples. In fact, it’s estimated that as many as 14,000 different varieties of apples were grown here in the 19th century.

On this map, the interior of South America, most of Africa, and most of North America are coded green for “pagan”—a signal to Protestants reading the map that these were fertile fields for ...

John Wesley Powell, explorer, geologist, and scientist, produced this map while he was the head of the Bureau of American Ethnology, as part of an 1890 Annual Report. According to Powell’s ...

In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America's furious and fractious politics ...

As the global financial landscape evolves, the private capital sector is facing a host of new challenges and opportunities. SuperReturn North America returns to Miami March 17th-19th bringing ...

In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms Daniel N. Gullotta How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war.

Art from the 19th Century depicting Native American life was put on display in North Dakota on Wednesday.