A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

LOCAL NEWSPAPERS IN 1800; Queer Contrast Between These Late Century Journals. OLD TIMERS NOT HUSTLERS Advertisements Characteristic of the Period -- Some Famous Editors -- William Cobbett and the ...

Review The Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia: A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914 Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert January 1945 Published on January 1, 1945 ...

A silver amulet found in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

New York City had a horse problem in the last 19th-century. Its streets and alleyways were jammed with an estimated 150,000 of the animals—each one producing more than 35 pounds of waste every day.