Mae Ngai, author of [The Chinese Question], talked about the late 19th century California gold rushes and the friction between Chinese immigrants and white settlers. She described how, during this ...

In a talk sponsored by the Tremont Historical Society, Monday, July 28, entitled “Finding Private Frazier” Acadia National ...

“It was not seen as something that needed to be hidden,” she said. Lew-Williams delivered a virtual lecture, “The Chinese Must Go: A History of Anti-Asian Violence,” on Sept. 28 as part of the Lowell ...

Check out Lark E. Mason's appraisal of a 19th C. Chinese bronze Guanyin figure in Vintage Hartford 2023, Hour 1. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines ...

On huge plantations surrounding New Orleans, home of the largest slave market in the antebellum South, sugar production took off in the first half of the 19th century.

The discovery of gold mines in Victoria sparked a migration of Chinese laborers in the 1850s, leading the Victorian government to levy a £10 tax, worth over $1,300 (£1,000) today, on every ...

A pair of Levi's jeans sold for more than $75,000. Don't worry. Inflation hasn't gotten that bad. The (really, really) old pair of jeans hails from the 19th century. The jeans were put up for bid ...

A pair of Levi's jeans sold for more than $75,000. Don't worry. Inflation hasn't gotten that bad. The (really, really) old pair of jeans hails from the 19th century. The jeans were put up for bid ...

Christmas is frequently mentioned in Persuasion. Austen described early 19th-century Christmas meals as occasions when there were “brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel”.