Robert Shaplen’s “Free Love” delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.

In the 19th century, the United States was not considered a "great power" like Britain, Russia or Austria-Hungary. But somehow it beat all of them to become the dominant global superpower by the ...

The raw congressman from Ohio behind the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890, which lifted average tariffs to a 19th century high of ...

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To this end, they increasingly argue that 19th-century America’s extraordinary economic success was fueled by high tariffs. In an essay for the Economist, former U.S. Trade Representative Robert ...