Malaria was a major killer in British India, claiming millions of lives. Colonial infrastructure aided its spread and British ...

An award-winning lateral house in a charming London suburb is on sale for £7.5 million (US$9.7 million). The house in London’s quaint Belsize Park neighborhood has a 1860s traditional Arts and ...

You can view three 19th-century paintings with deep cultural and historical importance to Hawaii that are rarely accessible to the public.

In this interview from 2008, conducted at the artist’s Los Angeles studio, Florian Maier-Aichen discusses his beginnings as an artist, the evolution of his hybrid practice, and his respect for ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

Photo: Paul J. RICHARDS / AFP/File In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, ...

In this telling, high tariffs fueled America’s nineteenth-century industrial rise. Tariff-supporters like Oren Cass have argued that the United States “transformed from colonial backwater to continent ...

They studied hundreds of historical texts and their mood boards took inspiration from Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s paintings of deities and affluent 19th-century families. Their most valuable ...

A federal District Court two years ago temporarily blocked the abortion ban that originated in the 19th Century, but the state has appealed the decision to the 5th Circuit in an ongoing lawsuit ...

He is all about power politics in a crude and blustering way that is a disturbing and dangerous throwback to the 19th century. The danger of dividing the world into loosely defined “spheres of ...

‘The issue of immigration is a matter of humanity’: Mexican citizens react to US anti-immigration commercials ...

The 19th century conversion is nestled in the heart of Whickham, Gateshead, and is a stone's throw away from an array of restaurants, bars and shops. There is also a number of primary and ...