The Loess Hills, in Iowa. (Photo by Nathan Beacom) ...

In “Strangers in the Land,” Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.

Henry Wiencek’s zesty history recounts the extraordinary partnership between architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus ...

A: I was especially fascinated by the technological advancements in the building of the transcontinental railroad and telegraph system in the mid-19th century. Abraham Lincoln was prophetic in his ...

In 19th-century America, Chappel writes, “the presumption was that ‘old age’ was not a long phase of life that began at sixty-five, but a short one that was marked by disability and decline … ...