In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck and went on to a life of wealth, adventure and corruption The post How a ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

Domingues da Silva, who currently serves as host of the SlaveVoyages project, unpacked his findings on Brazil's 19th-century slave trade ... and the University of British Columbia, bestowing ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone ... regretting the “untold suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...