"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

As Madame Renards' balloon was being inflated, it suddenly burst into flames. While one unfortunate bystander had his ...

Imagine doing this page-by-page back in the day. You get to feel like you are. People travel from all over the world to see the printing press; now, anyone can experience it on the virtual app. "For ...

Mikaela Shiffrin has earned a record-extending 100th career Alpine skiing World Cup win, coming back from major injury to join a short list of athletes across all winter sports with triple-digit ...

A stark reality awaited women born without means in Victorian Southampton. Often branded "fallen women," these individuals faced a society quick to judge and slow to offer support. The rigid ...

More than 8,000 photos that depict English architecture, landscapes and maritime history from the 1800s to the early 1900s have been given to Historic England. The Janette Rosing collection has ...

A 17th-century world map by Joan Blaeu ... like this one that sold for over $6,000 in 2012. Topographical maps from the 19th century, like those created by the U.S. Geological Survey, can sell ...

This will be the second time Osaka has hosted a World Expo after Expo '70, 55 years earlier (a remnant of that expo includes the famous Tower of the Sun that appeared in 20th Century Boys).

‘Victorian London was the capital of the world,’ explains Knight ... it has nothing on the hustle and bustle of the 19th century capital. ‘People ran everywhere,’ says Knight.

Janette Rosing (1942 to 2021) was a renowned photographic consultant, connoisseur, and collector who dedicated her life to studying and amassing a collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs ...

How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war. In his second inaugural address, delivered as the Civil War neared its end, Abraham Lincoln turned not to politics ...