Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...

This Ohio village offers a rare chance to explore authentic 19th century buildings gathered in one peaceful setting that feels untouched by modern life.

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 ...

A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of Now You See It, Now You Don’t. In the beginning, not a whisper ...

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 ...

From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, 'monstrous births' -- malformed or anomalous fetuses -- were, to Western medicine, an object of superstition. In 19th-century America, they became instead an ...

More than fifty years before it was isolated as a drug, Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamed up cocaine. In the early years of the nineteenth century, the poet was increasingly dependent on opium, a ...

Ambrose Andrews, “The Children of Nathan Starr” (Middletown, Connecticut, 1835), oil on canvas, 28 3/8 x 36 1/2″ (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Nina Howell Starr, in ...

Introduction: historical Latinidades and archival encounters / Rodrigo Lazo -- The errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and migration's intention / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Historicizing ...

The wreckage was discovered about 20 nautical miles off the Swedish coast. A team of divers discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden that was "loaded to the sides" with historical ...

Located only a few miles from the Massachusetts border, the house was last sold in 1993.