Throughout the 19th century, major archaeological museums in Europe strove to gather impressive collections of Egyptian antiquities.

Sotheby's is selling several works from the estate of late Swiss collectors Rolf and Margit Weinberg in New York this spring. They span "masterpieces of the late 19th century to pioneering ...

Spain's wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in ...

Like his late father, he lives in South Africa but does make annual visits. Read more How soldiers in Europe's only private army carry 19th century rifles ...

The Continued Role of Christian Antisemitism in the 19th Century Even as modernity and secularization spread across Europe, Christian antisemitism did not disappear.

Before the end of the 19th century, the number of immigrants from outside western and northern Europe was still relatively small — meaning their 2% quotas would be minuscule.

Kickapoo Indian Company In the late 1800s, Dees says there was growing interest in “medicines purported to draw on Native American medicinal knowledge.” Part of this was a backlash to the Industrial ...

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 ...

False ideas about the extinction of the white race, spread around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gave rise to xenophobic and anti-immigration conspiracy theories.

France, a land of immigration since the 19th century While English, Irish, Germans, Scandinavians and Italians left Europe for the New World in droves, at the same time France was welcoming ...