Wisconsin's top state court ruled on Wednesday that an 1849 state law banning abortion in virtually all cases cannot be enforced, rejecting claims it had been revived after a landmark U.S. Supreme ...

Plans to convert a 19th century Rochdale pub into flats have been put back on the table. Royds Arms sits within a conservation area of Rochdale and has been vacant for more than a year.

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

THE POPULATION OF the island of Ireland has reached 7 million for the first time since the 19th century. A joint project between Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the Northern ...

River Seine reopens to Paris swimmers, after Olympics, century-long ban Bathing sites will be located near the French capital’s Notre-Dame cathedral, the Eiffel Tower and in eastern Paris.

One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.

Whatever the true origin of its name, the island flourished and gained a certain reputation in the 19th century. It was from here that whaling ships set sail, with whale oil and fat used to fuel ...

During the mid-19th century, whaling ships from New England anchored in Lahaina and O‘ahu. Hawaiian ports became vital stopovers where crews resupplied and spent shore leave.

During the 19th century, whaling was a multi-million dollar industry in the United States involving long whale hunting voyages across the world’s oceans by hundreds of whaleships.