The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

For 19th-century Americans, water represented both nature and civilization. The painter Robert S. Duncanson, then the nation’s most celebrated African-American artist, subtly addresses both ...

HARTFORD — Frederick Douglass, the great American intellectual, activist, and abolitionist of the 19th century, had a clairvoyance about the power of images. He sat for more than 160 photo ...

When Trump says that America should be "great," that includes being a great power. But Trump thinks the U.S. should be a great power in the 19th century sense of the term.

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms Daniel N. Gullotta How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war.

Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary ...

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July here are 13 —signifying the original 13 states — movies that celebrate what it means to be ...

Instead, Mr Trump extolled the prosperity of America in the late 19th century, when the country was much poorer than it is today. “We can be so much wealthier than any country, it’s not even ...

Ironically, some of the very things that Donald Trump is promising to undo in the name of making America great again. In the 19th century, the United States was not considered a "great power" like ...