Another point Wood emphasized, both during the lecture and the Q-and-A session that followed, was that it is hard to judge the morals of the early Americans retrospectively. Many founding fathers, ...

This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...

Karin Wulf's new book, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America, explores the many ways in which people of the past reflected on their family histories. Illustration by Meilan ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. One doesn’t need to follow the ...

It’s easy to romanticize early American life like it was one long montage of rugged independence and neat little cabins, but the truth is less cinematic and more practical. When help wasn’t coming—and ...

THE anniver-sarians, who offer Tschaikowsky pro-grams because Tschaikowsky died forty years ago and provide similar melancholy tributes to composers who have been dead for a stated number of decades, ...