The term to describe this phenomenon would be known as the ‘Industrial Revolution’ and was first used by French writers, but made popular by English economic historian Arnold Toynbee.

In the 19th century, four friends changed the way scientists viewed themselves. It’s time for another shake-up.

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have shown that climate change, driven by human activity, was detectable as early as the 1880s, well before the widespread advent of fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

How a 19th-century news revolution sparked activists, influencers, disinformation, and the Civil War Long before anyone was accused of being “woke,” the Wide Awakes used new news technology to rapidly ...

Nearly 200 years after the first freight cars carried goods over railroads, the country is in the middle of a new revolution in transportation and commerce fueled by the pandemic.

Newly discovered handwritten documentation sheds new light on an ongoing scientific controversy regarding a famous collection of nearly 1,000 skulls amassed by a 19th-century Philadelphia ...

8-year-old kid with a metal detector stumbles upon a 19th century shipwreck Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856. By Mack ...

This 19th-century London dandy caused a style revolution Sharp-dressed man Beau Brummell was the sole arbiter of male fashion and invented style rules that men still follow today.

The 19th-century pope refused to endorse either the capitalists' wait-and-see promise of progress or the communists' longing for a dictatorship of the proletariat.

That, Reid argues, is because the partition of the late 19th century was not a dramatic break with all that had gone before.