Elizabeth Berry was hanged at Walton Prison in 1887 after murdering her 11-year-old daughter, Edith. Working as a nurse at ...

The story of Les Misérables (the book), written by Victor Hugo and published in 1862, is set in post-revolutionary France, ...

But he was skeptical that Trump would fulfill the anti-abortion movement’s sweeping ambitions. “It would be great if we ...

Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honoring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ...

The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th century Australian ... newly arrived unmarried women and girls who came to New South ...

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many ... then as a depot for unmarried women migrating to Australia, and later serving as an asylum for ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

Photo credit: Old Jail Museum The museum offers guided tours that take you through the men’s and women’s cells, maximum security, and even the death row area. As you wander through the cells, you ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

Gurdwara Bahi Karam Singh constructed in the 19th century, boasts a majestic façade, intricate woodwork, and distinctive black-and-white marble floor tiles. The building, with its grand hall ...

16, 2020 8:03 a.m. Tennessee tipped the scales to codify women’s suffrage in the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago Tuesday, becoming the 26th state to ratify the 19th ... of a century of women ...

Discover the holiday traditions of 19th-century Minnesotans weekends in December at The Landing – Minnesota River Heritage Park, Shakopee. Meet costumed interpreters and tour the homes of ...