The daughter of Quaker abolitionists, Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) left her teaching career in 1849 to join her family's work in the abolition and temperance movements. In 1851, Anthony met ...

In the aftermath of the Spanish-American war, Filipinos' elation at throwing off the constraints of Spanish rule was quickly replaced with anger over the prospect of being subject to American ...

Annual Inflation Rate: 0% in 1900 to 3.7% in 1910 to 15.6% in 1920 The modern economy in America really began around the turn of the century, when the country shifted toward industrialism and away ...

115 years ago today, the Galveston Storm of 1900 hit, killing thousands and all but obliterating the city of Galveston. By today’s standards, the storm would’ve been a Category 4 hurricane, with ...

On October 5, AEI’s Colin Dueck spoke with the Brookings Institution’s Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow Robert Kagan about his new book, The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of ...

Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. The U.S. Supreme Court's Bruen decision instructs lower courts to look to U.S. legal history to see what sorts ...