It was also a decade marked by painful conflict over Native American removal, a legacy that still echoes in many communities.

Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African Americans, people whom we today would call African Americans, have been involved in local entertainment. They are the fiddlers at ...

While New York is a city continually changing and evolving in almost every aspect, it’s hard to top the upheaval of Manhattan in the 1830s. Between the worst fire in New York City history to absolute ...

In the 1830s, lured by the promise of becoming rich from the domestic silk worm trade, Connecticut went through a mulberry tree boom, bubble and eventual bust.

An organization that documents shipwrecks said it has found the wreck of a 60-foot, single-masted sloop in Lake Michigan that may date back to the 1830s while looking for remnants of a plane that ...