Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

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Sisi, or Elisabeth, often referred to as a 19th-century Princess Diana, was obsessed with her appearance. She had a ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...

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maps and photographs—and why we shouldn't take them for granted A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly ...

Your demitasse spoons in the Art Nouveau “Lily” pattern from the Floral Series by R. Wallace & Sons of Wallingford, ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...