These high tariffs and the resulting trade war helped to plunge America and the world further ... act limited immigration to about 150,000 a year, down dramatically from the hundreds of thousands ...

The New Deal – and the Second World War – set the stage for the rise of America as the world’s pre-eminent superpower. For almost the next 100 years, the United States bestrode the world as ...

The Great Gatsby — 100 years old? How can that be ... The novel's main characters are young in a restless America reveling in the excess of the new Modern Age — an age whose anxieties have ...