In response to the economic challenges of the 1890s, the United States enacted the Dingley Tariff Act in 1897, significantly...
In 1782, the dream of flying through the sky became reality, A group of daring men of science and vision took flight in the balloon.
What is perhaps the biggest challenge for social historians is to wrap our heads around the continuum of time: around...
This month, Facebook began prompting users in fourteen countries to read a guide on the fake news phenomenon, with a list...
Long before the internet and online ordering, mail order catalogues were one of the only ways that the American rural...
April in 1860 began with a cold snap in Nashville, Tennessee and there were fears that the peach crop would...
Winner of Rogue or Angel? Contest Congratulations to reader Heather Milnes, winner of The Social Historian’s Rogue or Angel? Contest...
Centuries ago, ordinary people lived out their days, going about their daily business, and then ultimately died, all without anyone...
Born to a Quaker family on 15 February 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan Brownell Anthony was a teacher, an abolitionist,...