We most often judge the past through films and fiction. But it is important to remember that their creators don’t always show ...

Over its 100-year history in China, the often-maligned hairstyle has gone in and out of fashion amid warfare, gender politics, and cultural shifts.

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

Imagine a world where medical research routinely excluded men... That's the reality many women face when it comes to healthcare. For too long, women's health has been an afterthought, a niche ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Vladimir Putin served his apprenticeship in the KGB toward the end of the Cold War, a period during which ...

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 ...

Despite the disappearance of their original, practical purpose — which was on display in London in the 19th century, at the Great Exhibition of the Products of the Industry of All Nations — these ...

The presentation, titled ‘Women and Style in the 19th to early 20th century Malta’, will be delivered by fashion historian Caroline Tonna.

He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K. Polk and William McKinley. Both championed what many consider outdated policies that Trump is now trying to ...

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 ...

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 ...