In 1842, Friedrich Engels walked the streets of Manchester in the UK, noting its crowded tenements and sunless, smoke-filled ...

The Village Voice offers a gift-giving guide on hard copies of some cinema classics, oddballs, and bizarro porn.

Visitors and memberships are up since the Rensselaer County history site became a center of information and filming for HBO's ...

The field outside the royal palace in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi was filled with an exuberant crowd, celebrating the return 100 years ago of an exiled king.

Freedom of the press and access to reliable information are pillars of democracy—freedoms which aspiring despots can ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation ...

Its centrepiece is a fascinating series of “before” and “after” pictures – some dating back to the 19th century. The book ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Backup quarterback Nick Arbuckle led the Toronto Argonauts to their 19th Grey Cup title, ...

Nineteenth-century literature and culture have proved a rich field for interdisciplinary studies. Since 1994, books in this series have tracked the intersections and tensions between Victorian ...