All the children attended Ferris Institute, where Frank graduated in 1911 before launching a distinguished career as one of ...

A master of portraiture and a leading figure of American Impressionism, Cecilia Beaux left a lasting mark on 19th-century painting with her luminous and realistic works. Let’s take a closer look at an ...

In fact, there’s one 19th-century painting that people say shows something way ahead of its time—a device that looks a lot like an iPhone. Curious? You won’t believe what they’ve found.

Kissinger noted that realism was U.S. foreign policy throughout the late 18th century and all of the 19th century. Read Full Article » Related Topics: Foreign Policy ...

On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment became law. Citizens of the United States could no longer be barred from voting based on their sex. The culmination of many decades of struggle involving ...

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. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...

A half-century after ratification, when African-Americans were still being beaten and murdered for seeking the vote, the charismatic organizer Fannie Lou Hamer did not stand on the 19th Amendment.

The received medical wisdom of the 19th century was that assertive, ambitious women were unnatural, and therefore sick. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections.

Even a century after Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920, there are still a lot of misunderstandings about what that 39-word addition to the Constitution ...

In the early 19th century, medical knowledge was a fusion of ancient concepts and recent observations that explained how illnesses spread. Today we think of diseases as having specific ...

A pair of Levi’s jeans from the 1880s has sold at an auction in a small town in New Mexico for more than $87,000. The jeans – found in an abandoned mine by a “denim archaeologist” – were ...

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.. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...