The 19th century was an era of both romanticism and rapid change. It was a time when the public's perception of power and beauty was shaped by the masterful brushstrokes of a portrait artist. Yet, as ...

The thickness, colour and texture of facial and head hair showed character traits about men and women, it was believed in ...

Explore the East Side neighborhood where artist Edward Bannister and his entrepreneur wife, Christiana Carteaux, mingled with ...

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

“As the first national women’s reform organization, [the American Female Moral Reform Society] showed that there was power in women organizing to address societal problems,” says rhetorician Lisa J.

A story. An imagined future. An “intellectual funhouse” in the words of Jonathan Michael Square. Square guest curated an exhibition at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Winterthur, DE ...

Series from publisher's Web site. NPM copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies ...

Emma Stebbins was the toast of 19th-century Rome and an art-world trailblazer. Her work is still being celebrated today.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, has made history as the first woman and the first Black and South Asian individual to be elected vice president. Should she win ...

In the 19th century, festive decor would have centered around Christmas foliage ideas. Like the author's own childhood home, Little Women was set in the Massachusetts countryside, where the March ...

Kimberley Connor has previously been a member of the Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee which preserves the history of the Irish Orphan Girls at Hyde Park Barracks. Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks ...