A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...

The two neighbours and long-time allies have each long laid claim to the island and surrounding water, where the US state of ...

America’s first depression ... and unresolved war debts in Europe as the more immediate causes. As a historian who focuses on the 19th century, I will not weigh in, except to say that rapid ...

The prevalence of seagrass throughout human civilisation has fostered spiritual and cultural relations with these underwater ...

Machias Seal Island is a tiny dot on maps of North America ... to break us so that America can own us." Back in the 19th Century, territorial conflicts and flare-ups along the US-Canada border ...

Stung by what she called a "major blow to the world economy," Ursula von der Leyen held a 5am press conference in Brussels to state the EU would retaliate, her dawn o'clock start yet another marker of ...

Speaking at a policy forum in the Artic port of Murmansk, Putin noted that the United States first considered plans to win control over Greenland in the 19th century, and then offered to buy it ...

Many of the 20th century’s problems flowed from these 19th-century trends. Following the financial Panic of 1873 and its ensuing economic depression in both Europe and North America, nation-states ...

It was Catholic Ireland’s misfortune—one of her misfortunes, in the middle of the 19th century—to be shackled ... allowing “farmers across North America and Europe to increase yields.

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