A recent book chronicling Aspen’s history repeated the mythology that Aspen’s mining industry tanked after the Panic of 1893.

Rare coins from the late 1800s can be worth a lot, due to several factors including the silver standard that was in place in ...

President Donald J. Trump says the word “tariff” is one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary. Are we so sure about that right now? Tariffs have a protectionist function to incentivize ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the country thrived in the 1890s, when tariffs were high, but historians say ...

In contrast, Trump has pushed presidential bounds and was a profligate spender in his first term. Another difference: ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

He was mostly concerned with domestic economic health, especially on the heels of the Panic of 1893, which caused a multiyear depression. He believed that broad-based tariffs, applied to thousands of ...

Trump is targeting Khalil in the same way the US once targeted Emma Goldman to deport thousands of legal immigrants.