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 ...

In the mid-19th Century, the United States saw the emergence of poor houses as a modern solution to poverty. These institutions provided shelter and work for impoverished individuals in exchange for ...

France has more than its fair share of flamboyant dishes – but the most elaborate of all is pressed duck, where a roast ...

A previously lost painting representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture in Philadelphia is now on view at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania after being bought for $10 at a suburban ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy ... to drugs against typhus, with a great deal of collaboration between the companies ...

“Ruth Butler performs a great feat in her depictions of Rodin’s stubborn belief in his own genius, which he related to the heroic destiny of late-19th-century France. He emerges as a ...

It used to be easy to make yourself unpopular wherever you went in England. Suggest the local football team was congenitally ...

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Remnants of a shipwreck that could possibly date back to the mid-19th century have washed ashore ... museums including Chatham-Kent's and the Great Lakes Museum in Kingston. He said he's also ...

It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot disguised as a mandarin. His aim was to reach the black tea hills in the ...