Swimming, possibly one of humanity’s oldest recreational activities, dates back thousands of years. The earliest known ...

What stands out most about the book I'm carrying under my arm, as I meander through the exhibits at the National Maritime ...

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Republicans in Congress Preemptively Back Trump’s Potential Invocation of the 19th-Century Insurrection Act. Senator Thune and Speaker Johnson offer no objections to a possible move after the ...

Applying this procedure to investigate the formation of postal space in Brazil at the beginning of the 19th century offers, in a way, a cartographic expression of what João Paulo Pimenta defined as a ...

View A leaf from a dated almanac on diseases and healing of Indian elephants (gaja salote). A grey pachyderm being attacked by two green animals (1824) By Indian School, 19th Century; Opaque colours ...

Constructed in 1891, and stretching an entire city block, from Eleventh Avenue to the West Side Highway, the Terminal Warehouse Central Stores Building (commonly called the Terminal Warehouse) was ...

The situation deteriorated, and in 1822, a group of Nadar women were stopped on their way to church and had their blouses ripped.“Irrespective of the fact that they had converted to another religion, ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

It is neither a painting nor a sculpture. It's a 19th-century condom, made from a sheep's appendix and printed with an erotic image of a nun and three aroused clergymen, now on public display for ...

19th-century Supreme Court case takes center stage in birthright citizenship appeal. The Supreme Court's 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to the American-born child of ...

Swiftsden House, a 19th-century manor house in England by architect has tiered seating. Reginald Blomfield, lists for $4.7 million with a tennis court and pool.