Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

Old Town tasting rooms like Temecula Olive Oil Company, Big Nose Winery, La Fata Cellars, Corbeaux Wine & Tea House, and soon ...

These, however, are far from the traditional pearls of the past. Instead, the modern pearl is boldly oversized and completely ...

Is it Victorian-core? Oregon’s Adelaide Beeman-White is winding back the clock on haute couture by dressing like she stepped ...

During a time when social status meant everything, women of the 18th century literally made an indelible footprint on early ...

They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

Soldiers will wear period costumes from wars throughout U.S. history to march in the Army parade. 'It's a little hot, but ...

Foreword: In previous articles regarding O.C. Sorensen and Leonard “Luder” Lund, who both immigrated to the U.S., I ...

A 19th-century farmhouse once tied to Montclair’s early apple trade is on the market near Edgemont Park. Built by the Harrison family on farmland that later gave rise to the Erwin Park ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.

A notorious 19th century Scottish con artist who went by ... In November 1884, dressed in luxurious clothing and dripping with jewels, Baillie arrived on the Isle of Skye. According to Worsley ...