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 ...

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

Ever notice how your social media feed is packed with flawlessly edited photos? It turns out this obsession with ...

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

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 ...

The 19th century goldfish bowl is part of a room named after that feeling of intense sadness – melancholia. Decorated with ...

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 .

The 19th-century tradition stubbornly persists against a 21st-century canvas — even on the edge of extinction. “I feel like America is always painting over everything.

Until the mid-19th century, writes University of Illinois historian Leslie J. Reagan in her book When Abortion Was a Crime, “What we would now identify as an early induced abortion was not ...

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