Proponents argued that tariffs would shield American workers from the socially deleterious consequences of the industrial revolution that were already observable by the early 19th century in ...

Waters were the interstate highways of the early 19th-century United States ... of bison swimming across the river with the handful of explorers in a rowboat. A man in the boat seems to wave ...

Four space explorers are getting ready to come home ... Warren Buffett once suggested reading a 19th century poem when stocks fall Oatmeal Brownie | No Flour, No eggs, No Butter ...

During the 19th century casts became ubiquitous ... There were casts of vegetables, diseased limbs, plants and the heads of ...

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had become increasingly urgent. Scientific discovery was accelerating, global trade was booming and industrial projects were growing in scale ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived in mid-19th-century France. The study revealed that the child had ...