The pneumatic tire and the chain drive, followed by the development of gears, revolutionized bicycling in the later 1800s. In the last fifteen years, there has been a revolution of sorts in the ...

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and African Americans in British North America and the United States staged hundreds of revolts. Fed by a longing for freedom and ...

Of all the U.S. military arms of the mid-19th century, one of the most interesting, effective and well-built was the Model ...

If you peer underneath the house, you’ll see charred wood nestled next to newer lumber – evidence of a 1953 fire that damaged parts of the 19th-century structure. The house is called Kaxátjaa Hít, or ...

Archaeologists are confident they have found the wreckage of an 800-ton Dutch merchant ship that sunk off the coast of Australia 168 years ago. The Koning Willem de Tweede was lost near Robe ...

Leo XIII was a "great 19th century pope," Barron told CBS News. "When the revolutions in the 18th century happened, and the philosophical revolutions of the 19th century, the church initially said ...

Period charm of the 1840s property perfectly framed by the creative vision of Jane Willoughby and her husband John Jane Willoughby in her Castlecomer home. Photo: Bryan Meade The exterior of the ...

MEQUON, Wis. — A Mequon-area family is cleaning up after an unexpected fire spread quickly through their backyard, leveling a barn that dates back 170 years. Robert Groth said he was making his ...

Cork appears to be the only city in Europe giving serious consideration to housing its 21st-century library in a brewery extension built not long after the end of the 19th century. Having been in ...