What made America great? Ironically, some of the very things that Donald Trump is promising to undo in the name of making ...

Trump is giving too much credit to tariffs as he talks about America’s strengths in the late 1800s, according to historians. “That was a period of great economic growth and prosperity ...

but living freely on America's western frontier nevertheless appealed to thousands of men. These photos were taken across the American West between the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

As President Donald Trump promises that more tariffs will be coming, he has pointed to history to explain his fervor for imposing taxes on imports. “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913.