In the sitting room of the interior designers Scarlett Supple and James Thurstan Waterworth’s house in the English county of ...

NOTHING in all history had ever succeeded like America, and every American in the nineteenth century knew it. Nowhere else on the globe had nature been at once so rich and so generous, and her riches ...

“La Réception au Château,” a meticulous framed oil on canvas depicting lavishly attired guests reveling by the water outside a grand country home, painted by nineteenth-century French artist Adrien ...

Back in the 19th century, when tractors were still pulled by horses and the word “computer” meant a person hired to carry out tedious calculations, climate science made front-page news. One European ...

The long-standing maritime tradition is associated with good fortune for crew and ship.

I have what is probably a not-very-healthy fascination with 19th century crime. In addition to what are generally regarded as the first serial murders (the Whitechapel killings of 1888), the century ...

When Hunter S. Thompson came to New Hampshire’s largest city to cover the 1972 presidential campaign, he described it as “a broken down mill town with an aggressive Chamber of Commerce and America’s ...

More than fifty years before it was isolated as a drug, Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamed up cocaine. In the early years of the nineteenth century, the poet was increasingly dependent on opium, a ...

Patient memoirs of 19th-century asylums tell the good, the bad, and the ugly from the early days of institutional mental health treatment. Before and after photos show women who were given the rest ...

If shows like Downton Abbey have been on your search history, then this list of five series set in 19th-century Europe will ...