The beautifully detailed, early 19th-century map of the United States pictured above would be snapped up quickly by a collector if it were to hit the market today.

In the early half of the 19th century, the Northern states, having Puritan backgrounds, viewed celebrating Christmas as sinful and frivolous. But in Southern states, Christmas was an important ...

For More Than 150 Years, Texas Has Had the Power to Secede…From Itself A quirk of a 19th-century Congressional resolution could allow Texas to split up into five states ...

A 19th-Century Relief Map That ... notes that this L.R. Klemm map was made decades after the first tactile maps were printed in Europe and the United States. While the waterproof map could ...

Frederick Douglass was one of the 19th-century “standard-bearers” who helped define our conception of U.S. history, writes Colin Woodard. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Review by David W ...