Tucked away on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula sits Port Townsend, a Victorian-era maritime gem that feels like stepping into ...

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Why and how did they paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal? To help answer these questions, the film has secured access to a major new exhibition focusing on the 19th century Parisian art ...

A quaint 19th-century Cambridge house could be turned into a seven-person house of multiple occupancy (HMO). MATT Architecture Ltd proposes to turn Grafton House in Grafton Street, Cambridge ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs with women to his lack of deference to his so-called superiors ...

He's often credited as a founder of French gastronomy and of Grande Cuisine (classic French cuisine which was at its most lavish during the 19th Century). However, according to Paul Freedman ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

Whoa. What’s with all that traffic on Elm Street? At around 11 a.m. Monday, cars sat bumper to bumper in all three east-bound lanes of Elm Street starting at York. Near the intersection with High ...

In death, however, the 19th-century Habsburg monarch has joined a long list of historical women reimagined in 21st-century popular culture as feminist heroines—much to some historians’ chagrin.

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

PITTSBURG, Kan. — We are entering the time of the year where more and more festivals and events are on the calendar. And at the Crawford County Historical Museum in Pittsburg, it’s Cow Creek ...

By Jesse Green W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the operetta kings of 19th-century Britain ... “The Pirates of Penzance”? And that they opened it in New York instead of London to avoid ...