The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century remade how Americans engaged with the world.

The internet and the digital revolution have rendered the fax obsolete, a device introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1964 that ...

As a practical matter, attempting to shoehorn the 21st Century Internet into statutory language rooted in a 19th Century communications technology simply would not work well. Not only would doing ...

Not until the 19th century—perhaps around 1860 or 1880—did middle-class Americans commonly do so, and not until the early 20th century were birthday celebrations a tradition nationwide.

Yet the prospect of continuing dominance in this 21st-century technology hinges on harnessing a 19th-century one: electricity. That’s where America has a long way to go.