Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...

The film recounts the travel adventures of a young blacksmith's apprentice in the early 1840s as he embarks on a journey from his village in Eastern New York to join his family in Illinois. His ...

Florence Haas was well-known on both South Manitou Island and on the mainland for her navigational skills. She was the first ...

Prior to the advent of navigational charts in the 19th century, sailors often looked to the North Star, or Polaris, as their key reference point. Once Polaris was spotted, sailors could gauge the ...

Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the 19th century. King was known for his craftsmanship, particularly his intricate spiral ...

But the sailor might not have been real. Just after the turn of the 19th century, a German naval officer named Johannes Behrens set off on a winding voyage around the Mediterranean, and beyond. The ...

Janette Rosing (1942 to 2021) was a renowned photographic consultant, connoisseur, and collector who dedicated her life to studying and amassing a collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs ...

How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war. In his second inaugural address, delivered as the Civil War neared its end, Abraham Lincoln turned not to politics ...

James will experience the strict measures Cook implemented to preserve the sailors’ health, including all manner of scurvy cures, and dancing the hornpipe. He will also get to taste all the ship ...

On their journey to a hilltop church in Greenwich, the soon-to-be Jessie Belmont and her fiance, two of the most prominent members of 19th century high ... a blue suit and sailor’s hat with ...