These incredible late 19th century maps offer a glimpse into the urban landscape of America after 1865, post-Civil War, when New York was home to two million and was yet to see widespread electricity.

Schmidt calls the map an exercise in the “Digital Humanities,” where tools from the 1990s are used “to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America.” ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

On this map, the interior of South America, most of Africa, and most of North America are coded green for “pagan”—a signal to Protestants reading the map that these were fertile fields for ...

As parts of North America struggle to contain a completely unnecessary measles epidemic, it’s important to remember what life was like prior to the onset of vaccines. These maps paint a grim ...

John Wesley Powell, explorer, geologist, and scientist, produced this map while he was the head of the Bureau of American Ethnology, as part of an 1890 Annual Report. According to Powell’s ...

Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery New technical analysis dates Yale’s Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested ...

As the global financial landscape evolves, the private capital sector is facing a host of new challenges and opportunities. SuperReturn North America returns to Miami March 17th-19th bringing ...

In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms Daniel N. Gullotta How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war.

Art from the 19th Century depicting Native American life was put on display in North Dakota on Wednesday.