How a 19th-century politician may have cost himself an election The north view of the Manhattan skyline is seen from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan.

For almost 150 years, the memoir of 19th-century Auburn Prison inmate Austin Reed seemed lost to history.

Stanford University history Professor James Campbell presented a talk titled,"The Celestial Railroad Revisited: The Railroad in 19th Century American History and Culture." The Celestial Railroad ...

A story provided by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association about Lafayette's 19th century African American business entrepreneurs.

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.

A 1920s photo of two Black men embracing, part of a collection on homosexual African American men, was altered by social media users in Greece to falsely claim it depicted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ...

Until fairly recently, not much was known about Comic Almanack and Comic Token publisher Charles Ellms. That's a shame, because Ellms played a brief but pivotal role in American comics history ...

A leading Hong Kong businesswoman and member of the city's Executive Council, which deliberates policy, compared the struggle of pro-democracy protesters to that of slaves in the American South in ...

The idea that everyone should celebrate their birthday is, weirdly, not very old itself. Not until the 19th century—perhaps around 1860 or 1880—did middle-class Americans commonly do so, and ...

The article below was originally published on the Kluge Center blog with the title The Civil War, Reconstruction and the Transformation of African American Life in the 19th Century.

Telling the Story of 19th-Century Native American Treasures Through Bird Feathers Famed explorer John Wesley Powell’s archive of his 19th century travels is newly examined ...

Just as steampunk blends science-fiction technology with Victorian style, a modern field of physics that I call “quantum steampunk” unites 21st-century technology with 19th-century scientific ...