A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...

Later, as cars became more accessible, print ads began to appeal to emotions, associating them with freedom and adventure, ...

The notes were found in the Academy Building, which was under renovation at the time. Local historians determined that they ...

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the United States has suffered six economic depressions—which I define as six or more quarters of sustained economic contraction, although there is no ...

The article presents 19th-century photographic tableaux as early forms of social media – visual tools for connection, status, ...

In this telling, high tariffs fueled America’s nineteenth-century industrial rise. Tariff-supporters like Oren Cass have argued that the United States “transformed from colonial backwater to continent ...

Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...

He is all about power politics in a crude and blustering way that is a disturbing and dangerous throwback to the 19th century. The danger of dividing the world into loosely defined “spheres of ...

but around the sidewalk watching this steam shovel are many worthy men out of employment who would be glad of a few weeks’ work digging this cellar with a pick and shovel. “I offer a suggestion to you ...

From a prison to PRYZM, we take a look through a century of dancing, drinking, entertainment and glamour at Nottingham’s The ...

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...