From the Smoot-Hawley Act to Trump’s current trade war, economic history clearly demonstrates that protectionism is not only ineffective, but counterproductive. In a world where value chains are ...

A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Credit - Bettmann Archive—. P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has ...

American documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) took some of the most powerful and iconic ...

Across his political career, President Donald Trump has made his case for tariffs by relying on a number of false and ...

Allied forces drove the German army out of Naples in 1943. Dealing with the wreckage left behind was a battle all its own.

When The Great Gatsby was printed in 1925, critics roasted it resoundingly. “One finishes Great Gatsby with a feeling of ...

Mary Strausbaugh, who turns 100 April 12, has seen and been through a lot. 'No matter what happens,' she says, 'you keep on ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot ...

Economists and business leaders desperately tried to get the stubborn president and Congressional leaders to see reason, to ...