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 ...

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

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.

If such a line as “Mason-Dixon” existed (actually, there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided ...

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 ...

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Allen County Public Library In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political parties, not the government. Local ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers as they began to capture the transformation of the environment.

The music of the nineteenth century was - and still is - thought of as a 'romantic' art, whereas the main current of the literature and fine arts of the age was 'realist' from about 1830. Yet some ...

The practice of manipulating presidential, state and local plebiscites has had a far-reaching and infamous history in the 19th century. “With the infrastructure of democracy split into multiple ...

Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...

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.