Manchester's rapid industrialization and the beginning of workers' movements In the early 19th century, Manchester became the ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on “law and order.” Attendees appointed a committee to work with the city to ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The largely middle-class Liberals replaced Britain's aristocratic Whigs in the 19th century only to be supplanted themselves by the working-class Labor Party ... women's suffrage movement and ...

The backlash propelled the rise of right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements that promised ... The rise of globalization in the late 19th century, like its contemporary counterpart, had ...

His life and work is worthy of reflection here because he, with Martens and their YDR staff, led the transformation from a brand of 19th-century journalism ... liability, labor unrest and an ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

Photos from the late 19th century and early 20th century highlight ... leading to a rise in the labor movement. Strikes erupted as growing industrialization stirred labor tensions.

As spelling reform gained traction in the 19th century ... ourz ov labor on uther men who eat meat and drink wein or beer.” The peak of the so-called “Simplified Spelling Movement” came ...

In the Hôtel Les Invalides, Napoleon's veterans' hospital, is the Museum of Relief Maps. It houses military ... quite drastically in the early 19th century, and Chopin's music was changing ...