What is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798? What to know about the rarely used wartime law
Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.
Book About Yellowstone Wins American History Prize
The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable ...
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This Cookbook Made History—Now It's Been Republished For The First Time In 160 Years
Learn about the oldest known cookbook by a Black American woman, and why it's being republished for the first time in 160 ...
America's fatal division is nothing new: It was baked in from the beginning
Liberals still haven't awakened from the dream of American unity — but the Puritans and their followers knew better ...
'Unspoken sexiness': Marigold restaurant brings late-19th century London here | Going In
Crown Restaurant Group's Marigold serves Indian-inspired British cuisine inside a moody and feminine interior based on London ...
‘Keep your head': Why Warren Buffett suggests reading a 19th century poem when stocks are falling
Stock prices have fallen sharply this week as investors brace for the possibility of an economic slowdown — the potential ...
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How Do You Pick 250 Objects That Tell the Story of America?
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 ...
Queer theatre in the 19th century was a place of codes, cross-dressing and blackmail
The theatre offered queer Victorian men a space to express their identities, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.
Goodbye White Springs? Legislation filed to abolish historic north Florida town
Rep. Jason Shoaf aims to dissolve White Springs, a town with roots in a 19th century tourism boom, amid accusations of ...
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American Antiquarian Society receives 'unprecedented gift' of more than 18,000 items
WORCESTER — The American Antiquarian Society has received what it calls "an unprecedented gift" of more than 18,000 items of ...
Don’t Count on SCOTUS To End Birthright Citizenship, Send It to Congress
Leaving birthright citizenship to the Roberts court is walking into a minefield – legislation is the smarter route to end ...
SC inmate to die by firing squad. Is the 'barbaric' method making a comeback?
Though modern firing squad executions will look very different than their 19th century counterparts, Smith said "what we're doing today is a throwback to something that was considered unusual and ...