The Smoot-Hawley tariffs were meant to protect farmers, but grew owing to congressional “logrolling”, as representatives ...

On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a bill making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States. The tune was once a pub song, now it is performed at most sporting ...

Donald Trump’s tariff agenda is a near-repeat of America’s trade agenda of the 1930s. That did not end well for anyone.

A classic scene from the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has resurfaced on social media as users link it to ...

From the signing of the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807 to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ...

President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington ...

"Ferris Bueller is strikingly more instructive than 99.99% of political commentators on tariffs," wrote one economics ...

"The Star-Spangled Banner" became our National Anthem on March 3, 1931. Here's a closer look at Francis Scott Key's masterpiece.

Sparks Manufacturing Co. in Alton built renowned yachts, including the famous Ouatoga, for Midwest and East Coast ...

Harold Ickes, whom Roosevelt chose to become Interior secretary in his administration, decided in May 1933 to revert the name back to Boulder Dam because he felt it “should not carry the name of any ...

TIME magazine published its first issue and went on to become one of the most important news magazines of all time. Also, the ...