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Watch as we bring a mysterious 19th-century rusty tool back to life, revealing its history and craftsmanship along the way.
Was Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein pure fiction—or was it sparked by real-life reanimation experiments? A new book delves into ...
This very rare French pocket knife from the 19th century has been hidden away for generations. Watch as expert restoration reveals its original beauty and craftsmanship.
Bet was an enslaved Black woman living in Belleville in the early 19 th Century. In an online post, Henry-Dixon describes how she discovered Bet’s name in the digital archives of the Kingston Gazette.
Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation examined how a lack of federal funding and climate change severely impact ...
Clara Wieck Schumann was her father’s prodigy, a composer’s wife and a musician in her own right. Her story is still ...
The first time he and Mary Lou traveled to St. Louis to visit his family, they drove through the Lafayette Square n ...
By STEVE PFARRER For the Gazette Stephen Platt, who teaches 19th and 20th century Chinese history at the University of ...
Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?
There, Friends of Epler School, the organization that formed to help save the building from demolition, plan to use the schoolhouse as a resources to educate visitors about 19th-century life in ...
The Archive Center at the National Museum of the American Indian presents a new exhibition that can help "interrupt the ...
Renowned TAMIU historian Jerry Thompson explored Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and Jose de los Santos Benavides for the Laredo ...