The American Historical Association's Communications & Public Affairs Director Alexandra Levy provided brief introductory remarks before the start of a panel discussion on how the federal government ...

Modern factories rely on automation rather than workers, with Tesla's Austin plant employing just 3,000 people to produce 300,000 vehicles annually compared to Ford's 5,000 for similar output.

Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of ...

Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages. We look for effects of the agreement by industry and by geography, measuring each industry's vulnerability to Mexican ...

The Milwaukee Brewers have had a lot of good -- and some not-so-good -- trades in team history. This isn't ground-breaking and could be said about each and every Major League Baseball team.

“The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in 1994, and the USMCA was 2020, so after 26 years, the economy changed a lot, and I do think that moving from NAFTA to USMCA was positive,” ...

Most scholars say that at the nation's founding ending a pregnancy wasn’t illegal—or even controversial. Here’s a look at the complex early history of abortion in the United States.

Australia and the European Union have revived talks for a sweeping free trade agreement, after Australia's trade minister Don Farrell met with the European Commissioner for Trade Maroš ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Lawrence Welk didn’t have a flush toilet where he grew up, but visitors to his childhood home in rural North Dakota now do.. The bandleader’s childhood family home marks the ...

Some fans are deeming it as the first "trade" in college basketball history. Whenever a trade happens in the NBA, the next question is always the same: who won the trade?

The first U-boat to enter the Gulf was U-507, which cruised into the area on April 30, 1942.By May 12, it had sunk five Allied tankers and cargo ships. One of these vessels, the tanker Munger T ...

The legitimacy of President Trump’s tariffs is being questioned by U.S. courts, but the president is showing no signs of backing off his favorite tool.. On Wednesday, the tariffs that Mr. Trump ...