Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Click here to see 50 images of American life in the 19th century. 24/7 Tempo has assembled a portfolio of 50 photos documenting various aspects of the American scene between 1840 and 1900.

You won't find gleaming china, boldly patterned wallpaper, fine artwork or stately furniture inside the renovated buildings at the Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre in Bristow. In fact, you ...

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 ...

In his introduction to Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life, Jonathan Sperber stresses that he doesn't believe Marx was a prophet or that he has much to say to our age at all. He is a historical ...

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. Astronomers ...

A few years ago when Mark Lawrence first toured the onetime 19th-century stable in the Northwest Washington neighborhood of Shaw, he imagined the potential — despite what he saw. “There was ...

Eighteenth Century novels were huge things in several volumes with sprawling titles. By the turn of the 19th Century we are down to brisk books with short titles: Emma. (Editorial, n+1, 3,350 words) ...

The life of an 1800s New York abortionist inspires a tale about gender and economic inequities. Author Kate Manning discusses her work and her invented heroine, Axie Muldoon.

Click here to see 50 images of American life in the 19th century. 24/7 Tempo has assembled a portfolio of 50 photos documenting various aspects of the American scene between 1840 and 1900.