Trump invoked all corners of American history. How might he use them to build his new 'Golden Age'?
He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age." He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and ...
‘American Primeval’ Team on Portraying the Brutal History of America’s Westward Expansion: “The Truth of This World Is Violent”
Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, ...
The Myth of Opportunity Has Broken America
America's myth of opportunity has created the unprecedented civic crisis that brought Donald Trump back to power, writes Adam ...
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What the History of American Expansion Can Tell Us About Trump’s Threats
A historian of the United States' empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William ...
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The Discovery of Gold on This Date in 1848 at Sutter’s Creek Kicked Off the California Gold Rush and Transformed America
Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...
Trump renames Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. But is it really that easy?
President Donald Trump is renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. But how will that change go into effect – and will ...