The showcase aims to shed a light on the stories and pastimes of children growing up in Edinburgh’s New Town in the early 19th century. The game was invented by Ann Young, the only woman to receive a ...

From 'Moonlight' to 'Parasite,' documentaries to superhero epics — our picks for the greatest movies of the past 25 years ...

Nestled in an alley behind rowhouses in West Baltimore’s Hollins Market neighborhood, standalone watermelon, crates of ...

More than a 19th-century actress, Binodini Dasi was a woman who dared to write her life in ink, on her own terms. Her memoir ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

It turns out this obsession with picture-perfect portraits isn’t new and existed long before Photoshop and filters. Back then ...

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 ...

Toward a Pro-Woman Feminism for the 21st Century. The early American women’s movement took for granted that a woman was female—one whose human body was organized around the awesome capacity to ...

An engraved portrait of American writer and economist Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) Over the last few weeks President Donald Trump’s trade wars have triggered market instability, stoked fears ...

Back in the early 19th century, it was basically impossible. “Widow Clicquot” hit theaters Friday. It’s the true story of the famous French wine family and the woman who created a legendary ...

As Wales marks 'Railway 200' - 200 years since the birth of the modern railway - a major new resource shows the harsh reality ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery .