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.

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 ...

Click here to see 50 images of American life in the 19th century. 24/7 Tempo has assembled a portfolio of 50 photos documenting various aspects of the American scene between 1840 and 1900.

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 ...

An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City.

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 ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (WPVI) -- Take a step back to 19th-century America for this week's One Tank Trip. Built in 1851, it's a grand tour of the lavish Rockwood Museum in Delaware.