Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, historians said.

The house said the "visionary" Weinbergs "assembled one of Europe's most distinguished collections over the past 50 years." ...

As the story so often goes, in the late-19th century, America became a prosperous, industrial superpower founded on stable, factory jobs. But, in the latter half of the 20th century, a shadowy ...

By the late 19th century, the industrial revolution was finally bringing benefits to the working class. Laws had been passed limiting hours of work and improving working conditions. Higher wages ...

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived in mid-19th-century France. The study revealed that the child had suffered ...

Understanding Beijerinck's legacy for twentieth century microbial biogeography ... everything is everywhere' tenet developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg exhibition, “Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress,” showcases more than 100 pieces ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several trips to Poland. Encounters there with Russification, censorship and political oppression made the influential Danish writer fall in love with the ...

His 1842 Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population concluded that much poverty and ill-health was caused by the terrible living conditions and not by idleness. It shocked ...