In Tom Crewe’s fascinating debut novel, The New Life, the young author provides a fictionalized account of a late 19th-century gay man who set out to change the way England viewed homosexuality. The ...

Learn how Clear Spring residents lived through winter in the 1800s at a Jan. 18 lecture featuring rare stories and historic ...

This piece explores what everyday life looked like at the end of the 19th century. The 1890s were a turning point between two eras. Many communities still relied on familiar traditions from earlier ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Life on the Erie Canal in the 19th century is being kept alive by a local historian. Victoria Schmitt, a local independent culture historian, has studied the Erie Canal and Rochester ...

The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects ...

Hot on the heels of the Venice Biennale, an exhibition at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani pairs objects and illustrations from 19th-century life sciences from the George Loudon Collection in England with ...

The photograph in question is a historical recreation and artistic representation of 19th-century Jewish life unrelated to intimate wigs. Described as a "hauntingly nostalgic" photograph, the image of ...

The Geauga County Historical Society launched a new program this year to give children ages 5-7 a taste of 19th century life. Willoughby Vine Street storm sewer construction to last until end of ...

Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...