The song title "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" may have made the city famous, but historians will tell you a 19th century locomotive called "The General" is a more significant, and tangible, railroad ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.

There are 19th-century roots, too, to these A.I. ghost stories, and in “The Sandman,” Hoffmann identified the source with precision.

The 19th-century Printing Press Experience VR is free on Steam, a digital distribution platform, where users can purchase, download, and play video games. The app teaches students, scholars, and ...

A 19th-century shipwreck packed with crates of unopened champagne has been found in the depths of the Baltic Sea.

New music dropping after 2 centuries? Waltz of 19th-century composer Frédéric Chopin uncovered The waltz, written on paper the size of an index card, was likely intended as a gift for someone ...

8-year-old kid with a metal detector stumbles upon a 19th century shipwreck Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856. By Mack ...

A decades-old cold case is solved after bones discovered on the beaches of the Jersey Shore were found to have belonged to a boat captain who died at sea in 1844.

Seattleite Tim Greyhavens' new book, “Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900,” contains more than 200 carefully reproduced, personalized photos.

Two of the most prominent members of 19th century high society managed to combine romance and scandal in a one-day trip to a Greenwich church.

The forgotten history of New York’s first electric taxi fleet—in the 1800s More than a century before Teslas hit the road, battery-powered taxicabs zipped silently through the streets of ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.