Onion rings are a modern fast food staple but have been around longer than you probably thought. Here's the history of the ...

In 19th century America, churches and charities often organized similar ... it seemed as though feature phones were making a real comeback. Companies like Nokia, which used to dominate the mobile ...

Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites for the advancement of surgery began to fall into place. Among these was the need for adequate anesthesia ...

The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field.

In his rich and expansive new book, Jon Stewart shows that nihilism's beginnings in fact go back much further to the first half of the nineteenth century. He argues that the true origin of modern ...

In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States had been mostly a nation of farmers, who lived in the country.

In the 19th century, the number of people in prisons grew dramatically. Prison sentences became a far more common punishment as many forms of corporal punishments died out. Many new prisons were ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

Limited as chemical knowledge was when the nineteenth century opened, there were, however, certain men at work, who had adopted the quantitative methods of Lavoisier, and who soon made important ...

Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century We have no big money backers. We rely on sales and donations to keep us going. If you appreciate the socialist analysis and debate on this ...

The resulting optical illusion wasn’t a supernatural apparition: Instead, it was the product of a scientific phenomenon known ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.