In 19th-century Paris, the Paris Morgue became a popular attraction, drawing crowds eager to view unclaimed bodies. This fascination with death, a precursor to modern true crime entertainment ...

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. Instead, he offered a vision ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...

Photographer Eric Baillies' 'Temporal Bridge - Shadows of Milwaukee' exhibition, which opens on June 5, offers views of 21st century Milwaukee captured with 19th century technology. You just may ...

Skeletal remains found on different beaches along the South Jersey Shore belong to the captain of a 19th century ship that sank off the coast of Atlantic County, investigators announced this week.

Skeletal remains found on New Jersey beaches decades ago have been identified as those of a 19th-century schooner captain, thanks to the investigative efforts of college students. The ship ...

After the war ended, the fort was returned to the U.S., and as the fur trade declined throughout the 19th century, tourism began to pick up on the island and has thrived since. But it wasn’t ...

At some point in the mid-19th century, more than 100 academies — precursors to today’s pubic and private high schools — from Hudson in Columbia County, to Flatbush in Brooklyn, as well as Utica, ...

Works by 16 contemporary artists and one collective explore 19th-century African American life in California, including stories of little-known entrepreneurs, human rights activists, soldiers and ...

But valuable lessons lie in a more distant chapter: the rise and eventual breakdown of the Concert of Europe. This early 19th-century security system, devised after the Napoleonic Wars, preserved ...

A previously unknown shipwreck lying in nearly 70 meters of water off the coast of Estonia's largest island, Saaremaa, may be of a British collier which sank in the mid-19th century. The site has been ...