Early and 19th Century American literary studies explores the American experience through history, visual studies, philosophy, textual studies and race and gender theory.

Lafayette’s Ball evoques the festivities that honored Lafayette, the Revolutionary War hero who helped secure American ...

Description This lesson focuses on the evolution of American museums in the late-18th and early-19th centuries.

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

Compared to their counterparts around the world, US trade unions have historically been reluctant to undertake broad ...

An ancient cellar was found beneath a controversial American school, leading to an interesting discovery of its contents.

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

In contrast, early 19th century nativists worried more about religion and how to protect America's culturally Protestant foundations from Catholic immigrants — most of whom, at this point, came ...

Proponents argued that tariffs would shield American workers from the socially deleterious consequences of the industrial revolution that were already observable by the early 19th century in ...

For more than 150 years, spurred by federal assimilation policies beginning in the early 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were sent to boarding schools across the ...

For a start, America’s actual gun-law history collides with its gun mythology: that guns were widely carried and largely unregulated until the rise of the regulatory state in the 20th century.

Visitors step into early 19th century American life at the estate, where famous visitors once included James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster.