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Is American history reminding you of dark, tumultuous periods from the past? Consider the Gilded Age of the late 19th century

A scholar of American politics submits the 20 tumultuous years between the presidencies of Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley in the late 1800s.

Robert A. Strong

There are lessons from history for today’s divided America. Political division in the second half of the 19th century produced more problems than...

President George Washington warned in his 1796 Farewell Address about dangers that lay ahead for the US – warnings that seem startlingly...