Throughout history, many first ladies have used fashion to channel their political power, show solidarity with the public, ...

"These incredible artifacts give us a glimpse of daily life for the passengers and crew in the 1850s… They are a time capsule ...

Three summer exhibitions—at the Morgan Library, the Met and the Park Avenue Armory—shine a light on the work of pioneering ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

Moreover, for Jews and Christians alike, Zionism arose on the fertile basis of religious, especially messianic thinking that – in interpreting the early-19th century’s promising signs, seeing in them ...

October 23, 2015 19th Century Detectives. Luke Willert talked about 19th century detective work and the role detectives played in the settlement of western territories… ...

Emily Blunt hit the red carpet on Tuesday night for The American Institute for Stuttering’s 19th Annual Gala in New York City. The actress spoke onstage during the gala and posed for photos with ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, Brazil's postal network was able to accelerate epistolary communications, modifying the social experience of time and space. Unipolar cartographic transformations ...

A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in ...

Until the mid-19th century, writes University of Illinois historian Leslie J. Reagan in her book When Abortion Was a Crime, “What we would now identify as an early induced abortion was not ...

The home was built by the Harrison family on farmland that later housed the Erwin Park neighborhood in Montclair. A 19th-century farmhouse once tied to Montclair’s early apple trade is on the ...