The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

In death, however, the 19th-century Habsburg monarch has joined a long list of historical women reimagined in 21st-century popular culture as feminist heroines—much to some historians’ chagrin.

Kristi Noem during a televised campaign in Mexico.Gobierno de Estados Unidos Trump has traded the common destiny of both nations for Manifest Destiny, that 19th-century political doctrine that relied ...

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

They’ve shared a lifetime of memories, most of them in the living room around the Victorian coal-black soapstone fireplace, where everyone would gather as the crackling woodsmoke and its warmth filled ...

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had become increasingly urgent. Scientific discovery was accelerating, global trade was booming and industrial projects were growing in scale ...

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...

‘Particularly, the opportunity to design a structure that would both complement the character of the 19th-century townhouse and introduce strong contemporary spaces.' 'The new spaces were designed to ...

As we all look forward to the holidays this year, we thought we'd take a look back at a Christmas of the past. Aside from the Apollo Mission, one other news headline helps set the scene.

With pedestrian-friendly pathways, stunning medieval and 19th-century architecture, and a warm seasonal ambiance, Colmar becomes an open-air Christmas ... X or boomer Wild scenes as South ...

Queensland has reopened its border for the first time in 141 days, allowing friends and families to reunite just in time for Christmas. The sunshine state ... There were emotional scenes at Gold Coast ...