The physical layering of utopian life on particular plots of land is not so unusual in the United States. Once an 18th- or 19th-century utopian community had cultivated a tract for communal living, ...

U.S. media in the late 19th century were notorious for ... the philosophy that sought to justify the United States' westward expansion. "These images speak so strongly," she said.

Cabet’s book was so popular and affecting that it led hundreds of French citizens to leave their homes and journey to the United States to ... View of a 19th-century Icarian colony Courtesy ...

In a new article published in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, "Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States," Miriam Rich ...