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 ...

While the latter's "Showstopper" category might trace its ancestry back to Carême's own sugar sculptures of the 19th Century, the first modern professional event of this kind for chefs started in ...

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.