Donald Trump’s rococo Oval Office decorations are old-fashioned and un-American.

A nuanced analysis takes a California oil spill as its point of departure to show how affluent homeowners pushed for an environmentalism that would protect not only the earth but also property and com...

Throughout the urban Atlantic World, skilled work proved central to the ability of free people of color to achieve economic and social mobility during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centu...

Hampton Smith Sometime in the spring of 1800, enslaved tobacco cutters in Henrico County, Virginia, brought their scythes to one of Brookfield plantation’s blacksmiths, Solomon Prosser, for sharpening...