Beneath the rough waters of South Australia’s coast, marine archaeologists say they have discovered the lost Dutch merchant vessel Koning Willem de Tweede, which sank nearly 170 years ago. The wreck ...

Experience the incredible power and speed of 19 amazing big wood sawmill machines working at another level. These high-performance machines are designed to cut through massive logs with precision and ...

The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International (CN-CSI) is pleased to announce a free and online one-day interdisciplinary workshop exploring the relationship between contagion and ...

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 ...

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David Shannon drove up from Lexington, Kentucky, to show me the new grave marker for Bob Clark, a major league catcher for seven seasons in the late 19th century, including a stint with the ...

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PITTSBURG, Kan. — We are entering the time of the year where more and more festivals and events are on the calendar. And at the Crawford County Historical Museum in Pittsburg, it’s Cow Creek ...

Drone footage has captured a fire that broke out at a derelict 19th Century church. More than 20 firefighters were sent to Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on Station Road in Port ...

The house sits within JP's Stonybrook neighborhood, a subset of Parkside that contains many houses of similar age, dating back to the mid-19 th century. “This house represented the history of ...

It’s really just an incredible effort.” Mendel, a citizen scientist, famously performed a series of experiments in the mid-nineteenth century in which he cross-bred some 28,000 pea plants to ...