The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy the military to enforce laws on US soil, including arresting ...

Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, historians said.

Nations pursuing “spheres of influence” set the stage for World War I.

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...

The book was located, not in the museum stores, but on a bookshelf in the office, next to other books ... Books were often created in the 19th Century to punish executed prisoners or by doctors ...

calling the southern border situation a "national emergency" that could be better tamed by invoking the 19th-century statute. On his first day in office in January, he asked for "recommendations ...