Whistler's portrait of Anna McNeill Whistler would become popular as a symbol of motherhood, exasperating an artist who ...

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 ...

James didn't mind. He was busy making art and getting admired. Jennifer Thompson quotes a well-known 19th-century poet, playwright and wit's comment on the great attention-loving painter.

Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look into the region’s maritime trade history.

Mr Trump certainly seems to take a 19th-century view of the western hemisphere. He wants America to own ports at each end of the Panama Canal, which currently belong to a Hong Kong-Chinese ...

A 19th-Century Church Struggles to Survive. A congregation founded to separate itself from the modern world tried relaxing its rules to retain members but lost them instead Deena So’Oteh By ...

In the early 19th century, Shrewsbury Flaxmill was a factory for manufacturing yarn and thread from flax plant. Up to 1,000 people worked and often lived in the mill, including children as young ...

In this 19th-century English story, Florence, an ambitious bookbinder, is expelled from her family home by her harsh and unforgiving father for being with a young man.

When Stephan Weishaupt began looking for a weekend home outside Toronto, buying a 19th-century log cabin was the furthest thing from his mind. Mr. Weishaupt, the founder of Weishaupt Design Group ...