Washington D.C.: 1850s: The nation's capital is a center of the domestic slave trade; many lawmakers were slaveholders. Slavery is not abolished in Washington, D.C. until 1862. 1838: The Anti ...

Fast food brands are fighting for every untapped corner of America. To see which brands are ... concentrated in urban areas. Check out maps of the top 15 below. #1 Subway has 26,887 stores ...

Early map of Nantucket, Courtesy ... accompanied their husband-captains on whaling voyages to the Pacific. Since 1850, this practice has been becoming more common, with many wives establishing ...

W alletHub compared America's 50 states across 37 key safety indicators. Here are the safest and most dangerous states in the US. More from Military & Defense W alletHub compared America's 50 ...

This map is a vertical representation of the population density in the United States of America. The taller the line, the ...

South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The Pacific Ocean is to the west of South America and the Atlantic Ocean is to the north and east. The continent contains twelve ...

This series brings together the work of a new generation of scholars writing the history of “global” America across time periods, methodologies, and fields of analysis. Published books are informed by ...

"If you had a map of Covid's biggest effects now and a map of child deaths in 1850, they look remarkably similar," Prof Chris Whitty told an NHS conference in June. Experts say the problems of ...

Music and Musicians, 1750-1850 explores musical culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through individual, cutting-edge studies (c. 30,000 words) that imaginatively re-think a ...

To this day we have better maps of Venus, Mars, and the far side of the moon than we do of much of underwater America. But now it’s time for a new epic journey. Last June the United States ...

The spectre of nuclear war is casting a shadow over parts of America as Russia's invasion of Ukraine and other global ...

The 44th Bank of America Chicago Marathon, the city's biggest racing event of the year, steps off in a matter of days, set to take thousands of runners on a grand tour of the city. As street ...