Throughout the 19th century, public mummy unwrappings were highly popular events in England. The man who pioneered them was Thomas Pettigrew, a 19th-century English surgeon, who became known later ...

This book offers something new and very much needed in the literature of nineteenth century history. It is not a text-book in the American sense, but is based largely on a series of lectures delivered ...

Prussia played a crucial role in the history of Europe, shaping its political, military, and cultural landscape for centuries ...

Carl Schorske, who reshaped the study of cultural history, dies at 100. Carl Schorske, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University and an authority on the intellectual ...

Abigail Green is a professor of modern European history and Fellow of Brasenose College at University of Oxford. Professor Green's research interests include the long 19th century, especially ...

A New Encyclopedia Explores Europe’s Smelly History ... to learn ancient recipes to an armchair traveler who’s interested in the sometimes off-putting scent of canals in 19th-century Europe.

An engraved portrait of American writer and economist Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) Over the last few weeks President Donald Trump’s trade wars have triggered market instability, stoked fears ...

Construction workers in northeast Florida have unearthed a piece of 19th-century history buried beneath the oldest city in the United States.. Florida Department of Transportation crews were ...

The striking linear features and columns that are distinctive to 18th- and 19th century European period pieces appealed to Carson when he got into antiques and antique dealing.