Not in the traditional sense that the people disappeared or that buildings were left to fall into ruin, but in the sense that a purpose was lost, swallowed by something much bigger, and an identity ...

A handful of books published in the mid-19th century, bound and covered with a pigment known as emerald green, are both rare and potentially deadly. The verdant hue, also known as Paris green ...

Nineteenth-century narratives that reduce complex, inspiring heroines to two-dimensional caricatures have a ripple effect in the 21st century, scholars say. "We continue to feed the fantasy of ...

What did early Native inhabitants and 18th and 19th-Century settlers have in common? They all sought the same things: fresh ...

Museums Association historian Anna Kyi said during the middle of the 19th century China was in turmoil. "For many, the appeal of gold seeking at this time was fuelled by the problems of the 'Old ...

Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre fiction, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers” kidnapped and drugged him.

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Even in the 19th century, it’s not hard to see why so many people started to consider these machines cruel. The treadmill, after all, was originally invented in 1817 as a torture device.

NEWPORT, Ky. (WKRC) - A modern day hunt for the past is underway on the banks of the Ohio River. There’s an archaeological survey going on to see if there are any remnants of the Newport Army ...

Activists in the 19th century also rallied for improvements to women’s education, a cause that is arguably reflected in Tissot’s The Newspaper (1883). The print features a woman peering at a ...

In the early 19th century, Shrewsbury Flaxmill was a factory for manufacturing yarn and thread from flax plant. Up to 1,000 people worked and often lived in the mill, including children as young ...