Fire engulfed the town hall of Paris’ 12th district early Monday, causing no casualties but severely damaging the bell tower ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...

It may come as a surprise in the capitals of liberal democracies in the West — not to speak of blue urban America — that ...

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Since the end of the eighteenth century Egypt has been a vital factor in European power politics. Its value as a bridge between Europe and the East was impressed upon British strategists and the world ...

European society was affected by the Industrial Revolution and by the late nineteenth century and above all the middle classes were gaining greater economic and social power than ever before. These ...

A NEWSPAPER review of this book has come into our possession, which gives the impression that its most prominent feature is the treatment of biological questions such as the Darwinian theory.

Modern historians and scientists hail Wallace as one of the bravest figures of the 19th century. He possessed enough physical ...

Built in 1897, Kimberly Crest is a testament to the fact that sometimes, reality can be even more fantastic than fiction.

94/268 A photograph of the artist James Tissot, circa 1860 to 1890 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life in Europe had accelerated to an ...

Like some misleading, clickbait title from the 19th century, Cleopatra’s Needles have no connection to the legendary queen.

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new ...