Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of ...

One of the biggest eras of change in the Industrial Revolution was really the second Industrial Revolution, from 1880 to 1920. Everything gets electrified — cars, telegrams, movies, all that.

The first era of defensive nationalism began in the 1860s after dramatic advances in railroads, steamships, printing, and the telegraph of the Second Industrial Revolution linked the world as ...

The second industrial revolution permitted the superiority of the United States, reinforced by the third industrial revolution: the computer age. Now what we are seeing is a struggle of who will ...

The first, from 1775 to 1815, spans from the American War of Independence and the French Revolution to the Congress of Vienna, convened to bring peace to Europe.

One of the most widely invoked theorists of nationalism, Ernest Gellner, argued that this process of internal cultural homogenization was driven by the requirements of industrial capitalism. In order ...