Uncovering the role of Northern agriculture in economic growth and the expansion of federal power in nineteenth-century America.

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

In this post Yunyufei Luo (University of Oxford) presents their research, which was supported by the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students. — How did people deal with credit w...

How an “ideological purity spiral” derailed some of America’s most promising classrooms.

Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940

“When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercis...

See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.

L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has become popular as a teaching tool in economics. It has been argued that it was written as an allegory of Populist demands for a bimetallic monetary sy...

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The real Whitney story is less grand than the legend, but more interesting and, ultimately, more edifying.

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