A map shows the distribution of the slave population in the Southern states of the United States ... one powerful way is to graph it. But this isn’t the first time we’ve discovered the ...

There has not been a challenge of this magnitude at any time in U.S. history with the exception ... may be the political and economic meltdown of the United States, which is having far-reaching ...

U.S. economic history has a lot to say about how trade wars can set off something much, much worse. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the United States has suffered six economic depressions ...

In his upcoming book How to Hide an Empire, Immerwahr sets out to tell the history of the Greater United States, what lies beyond the mainland. He traces the legacy of empire to the U.S.’s ...

China also has a substantial holding in U.S. treasury bonds—roughly $760 billion—making it the second-largest foreign creditor to the United States, after Japan. This economic reality ...