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 city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America’s southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the world undergoes rapid political and economic transformations with escalating conflicts shaking the Middle East, the ...

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.