Archaeologists have unearthed gold and silver jewelry at an early-medieval burial ground near the city of Sevastopol in ...

HBO's The Gilded Age is fiction, but informed deeply by history, with several characters that are based on real people ...

In 1892, two intrepid sisters made one of the most important religious finds of the century. Hidden in a dark chamber in St Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai, they spotted an ancient ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Fashion history: This 19th-century undergarment made a woman’s hips look bigger, and her, wealthier An excerpt from ‘Butts: A Backstory’, by Heather Radke. Heather Radke.

Ballantine mansion. An exhibit on Black women of the 19th Century is at the Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art.

In 19th-century America, ... and was supported by the fact that monsters could be born to women of any race. Rich draws upon the examples of an enslaved Black woman in Georgia and a white English ...

Behold, a woman fuming. Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over ...