Before the advent of Ordnance Survey maps in the 19 th century, the country was mapped through a series of county maps privately produced by individuals or small groups of surveyors with wealthy ...

Payton, the author of a civil war story, “1,417 Days in Rebellion:A History of the 19th Georgia Regiment”. As a lover of United States history, Payton decided to make a commitment to find out ...

NORWOOD, Ohio (WXIX) - Fire roared through a 19th-century home under renovation in Norwood early Thursday, causing the roof to collapse. The house at Hudson and Floral avenues has been vacant ...

An Irish revolutionary's extraordinary journey from rebellion to the Ottoman Empire ... The Remarkable Life of 19th Century Mercenary Eugene 'Hassan Bey' O'Reilly (1828-1873), relates the ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

In the 19th century, Wallace’s observations were striking ... His employers were usually wealthy landlords who hired him to map their estates to determine how much their tenant farmers owed ...

Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity. By Constant ...

President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th-century imperialism. In a single news conference, he pondered making Canada a state and acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal by ...

The Pratt family would own the house until the mid 1950s. The Pratt family ownership is also indicated on 19th century maps of the area. An 1873 map shows the house at the crossroads of the town, near ...

At a news conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pointed to a 17th century map of the New World ... time they purchased Alaska in the mid-19th century. Its mineral resources and strategic ...

Standing before a 17th-century world map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed "América Mexicana," or "Mexican America," because a founding ...