Since 1928, the average bear market — defined by a decline of 20% or more from recent highs — has lasted less than 10 months, ...

Last week, we talked about the importance of Emma Willard as an author and her relatively unknown sister, Almira, who also ...

Liberals still haven't awakened from the dream of American unity — but the Puritans and their followers knew better ...

"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

The Goodyear Blimp, which has a home base in Carson, has been wowing people for a century. It's changed quite a bit since ...

The film recounts the travel adventures of a young blacksmith's apprentice in the early 1840s as he embarks on a journey from his village in Eastern New York to join his family in Illinois. His ...

The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and ...

A small town in New Jersey was crowned one of the most charming in the country. Lambertville made HGTV’s list of the 50 most ...

The conservative majority wants to apply a “history and tradition” test to the Second Amendment. But whose history—and what ...

That wasn’t an easy question, but in the end it hit upon an intriguing solution: pick 250 items to put on display that will ...

In the 19th century, this lost American boomtown shipped 15 train cars of sturgeon roe daily. Here's the surprising story of ...