What made the 19th century an interesting but tumultuous time? What technological, cultural and social changes influenced life then? Explore those issues in this story collection.
A white-marble building, in Rome, honors the work of Victor Emmanuel II and his efforts to unify the Italian states.
Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon is an artistic interpretation of Napoleon, contemplating his fate, as he is exiled to the far-away island of St. Hel...
Elizabeth Cochrane, whose pen name was Nellie Bly, took a radical round-the-world trip in 1889. It made her the most-famous woman in the world.
O Captain! My Captain!
George Parkman had problems with his teeth.
This painting of Paul Gauguin (Man in a Red Beret) is attributed to Vincent van Gogh.
In its 10 October 1846 issue, the London Pictorial Times publishes an article about an ongoing famine in Ireland.
On the 8th of October, 1871, Peshtigo was a mill town in Wisconsin.
After President Lincoln was shot in the head, people at Ford's Theater tried to assist him.
Phosphate mining, in South Carolina, was once the most-dominant in the world. This twenty-year position of prominence ended due to a variety of factor...
When Florence Bascom taught geology at Bryn Mawr, she was part of the first women's college in America to offer a PhD program for female students. It ...
We learn more about the potato blight which caused Ireland such misery, during the mid-19th century, from the USDA.This image, for example, depicts wh...
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