Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

A chance encounter in an Alabama bar between a young Brit and a young American led to two more chance encounters, three transatlantic love stories and three weddings.

Much of what Brits think they know about American life comes from films, headlines and the occasional viral clip. Loud voices. Bigger cars. Bigger food. Bigger egos. Even Prince Harry once admitted in ...

When a downturn hits the economy, elite U.S. firms are better hedged than the U.K.'s -- or so says conventional wisdom. In the past New York's rainmakers haven't felt the effects as sharply as the ...

Across the Atlantic, everyday manners carry subtle power. From London to Los Angeles, adopting a few refined British social ...

The Revolutionary War was about many things — self-governance being at the core — but a major driver was access to land. The British restricted colonists’ migration westward across the Appalachian ...