“An Enemy of the People,” Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play about a doctor-turned-whistle-blower, is never out of season. But it would be challenging to find a 19th century drama that speaks as ...

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

In fact, there’s one 19th-century painting that people say shows something way ahead of its time—a device that looks a lot like an iPhone. Curious? You won’t believe what they’ve found.

The Victorian era, the period between about 1820 and 1914 corresponding roughly but not exactly to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901), saw Great Britain transformed from a ...

In the 19th century, an art form known as lithophanes was all the rage in Western Europe. These thin engravings were usually made from translucent materials like porcelain or wax.

A 19th century massacre, mostly forgotten, clouds plans for a shimmering tribal casino. ... REDDING — To the native Wintu people it was Bohem Puyuik, the “Big Rise,” and no wonder.

In the 19th century Comstock was like, “I'm going to use surveillance, and I'll use this brand-new position in the postal service to police what I call obscenity.” ...

He was fascinated by the relationships between them in the photographs, especially since the value of a dog in the 19th and early 20th century was often based on its usefulness to the owner.