World’s Fairs were created to launch futuristic technology and products, but ended up selling ideas and experiences. 174 ...

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived in mid-19th-century France. The study revealed that the child had suffered ...

The article presents 19th-century photographic tableaux as early forms of social media – visual tools for connection, status, ...

In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction, an Edenic landscape becomes a backdrop for duplicity and ...

The first documented circular-saw patent in an English-speaking country was granted in 1777, two years before Babbitt's birth ...

There’s everything from local history and geography books such as the 1979 first edition of John Feehan’s The Landscape of ...

There was no reason why the U.S. Marshal should spend the night on board the cramped, smelly little freight schooner he was ...

This photo was taken by H.H. Bennett, the 19th century photographer and historian who helped put Wisconsin Dells on the map.

Lincoln even patented an invention to help grounded steamboats ... viewer would appear to predict their coming slaughter. For 19th-century Americans, water represented both nature and civilization.

Their invention was the basis for the semaphore ... Over the course of the 19th century this primitive network of flapping, clanking machines evolved into a global communication system.

Amid the seemingly existential challenge by AI to the artistic process, two books explore how human creativity responds to ...