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I have discovered from the many responses to my articles about the good old days – the outdoor privies, the games of dominoes, the pump organs – that people do ...
As voting rights lose ground, The 19th spoke with four of the advocates working to preserve the path to the ballot for the ...
They also, as Higgie suggests, provide a stand-in for the values of feminism, environmentalism, collectivity, and ...
HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.
A Mount Vernon city council hopeful says in a new lawsuit that the voter rolls are filled with errors -- but election officials refused to clean up the records.
Glenview, a 19th-century seasonal home built for millionaire banker John Bond Trevor and his family, has been painstakingly restored by the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York.
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.
PARIS (AP) — Elie Saab, the Lebanese designer long favored on the red carpet, returned to familiar territory on Wednesday, with fall haute couture — and did so unapologetically. In Paris… ...
Discover how Ocean Grove, NJ, helped shape the American summer vacation, rooted in 19th-century Methodist camp meetings. This Drive By History episode also highlights the remarkable women of Ocean ...
Artists Marisa Adesman Is Casting Spells With Paint—and a 19th-Century Magic Book In her New York solo show, Adesman offers a peek behind the curtain to a world of pleasure and play.
Inside the 19th-century Baltimore tradition that stubbornly persists Arabber Keith Chesley carefully fills the horse-drawn cart with vegetables and fruits to sell on the streets of Baltimore.