The Dress With a Secret In 2013, a devoted archaeologist with a passion for historic fashion, Sara Rivers Cofield, came ...

If you fell in love with the aristocratic intrigues, family dramas and impossible romances of Downton Abbey, these three ...

In an era of change and fragmentation, the history of the early American press shows that media is shaped not only by ...

Remember the generations of Americans who decided to honor the founding's accomplishments through improvement rather than ...

Back in the 19th century, when tractors were still pulled by horses and the word “computer” meant a person hired to carry out tedious calculations, climate science made front-page news. One European ...

I have what is probably a not-very-healthy fascination with 19th century crime. In addition to what are generally regarded as the first serial murders (the Whitechapel killings of 1888), the century ...

Drinking in a bar used to be dangerous and not just because drinks had cocaine. Here's the bizarre reason 19th century New ...

Land reasserts the Gaelic language and culture in opposition to the culture of the British colonisers, but relies on ...

The Hudson River has long been dotted with piers and docks that served railroads and shipping lines in the 19th century, all ...