Over a century later, it took on a new life at a time when gay clubs and queer spaces proliferated but sodomy laws made it ...

Red Dead Redemption 2 will forever go down in history as one of the greatest games of all time, which is in part due to its ...

Sites like Kaaterskill Falls and Sunset Rock inspired 19th-century landscape painters ... but consider splurging for extraordinary views or a spa day to work out the kinks from the road. Also, check ...

Onion rings are a modern fast food staple but have been around longer than you probably thought. Here's the history of the ...

Many of the 19th-century readers who enjoyed a fun night creating ghostly images with Spectropia undoubtedly also believed in supernatural spirits. “[Brown] is saying our minds and our eyes [can] play ...

The practice of manipulating presidential, state and local plebiscites has had a far-reaching and infamous history in the 19th century. “With the infrastructure of democracy split into multiple ...

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Allen County Public Library In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political parties, not the government. Local ...

Since May this year, the aurora borealis (northern lights), has at times been visible further south than usual over Britain, ...

DNA Tests Identify 19th-Century Teenager's Skull Found in Illinois Home's Wall ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in ...

Robert Shaplen’s “Free Love” delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers as they began to capture the transformation of the environment.