It’s hard to shock a city like Amsterdam. But tucked inside a glass case at the Rijksmuseum, an unassuming tube of animal ...

We document dramatic changes in the demographics of union members: when density was at its mid-century peak, union households were much less educated and more non-white than other households, whereas ...

A historic brick house with a rich history in Fairfield, Connecticut, came to market last week asking $10.25 million. The Georgian Revival on Sasco Hill Road was built in 1927 in Fairfield’s ...

The 5,680-square-foot Richard Berry Jr. House was built in 1929 by esteemed Columbus architect Ray Sims, who is credited with helping to shape the “early 20th-century character” of the ...

He reserved his greatest affection for unexceptional 19th- and early 20th-century structures. Echoing his Gloucester watercolors (and decades ahead of the historic preservation movement), he ...

In this view, the extreme concentration of income and wealth among a narrow elite in the early twentieth century was broken only by the world wars and taxes on capital. The turn toward market ...

Twentieth-century America emphasized many of the values I hold dear—especially the rule of law. I grew up in San Francisco just after World War II. What I learned then may prove helpful now.

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