As a town evolves, some cherished establishments inevitably call last orders for the final time, leaving behind memories and ...

“My husband and I were both raised in these types of houses, and we had this romantic notion of living here and having a vegetable garden, cats and ... began in the early 18th century and ...

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

Our street was hectic and noisy for two months last summer as a storm drainage system was brought up to snuff. Hearing an at times steady vroom-vroom and ding-ding-ding, I wondered about the ...

Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary studies.

From personal letters to business records, these documents paint a vivid picture of life in early Vermont. It’s like reading a 19th-century version of social media, but with better grammar and fewer ...

In the 19th and early 20th Century ... Lancaster University Postcard culture exploded in the early 20th Century. Cats went along for the ride (Credit: Courtesy of the Edwardian Postcard Project ...

Tourism was growing on the other side of the Atlantic, too, as early-19th-century hotels sprang up in the Catskills, the White Mountains, and Niagara Falls, attracting wealthy city dwellers in ...

The house was “among the most beautiful, progressive, and productive in the country” in the early 19th century, according to the Gore Place Society, which has owned and operated the property ...

Back in the mid-19th century, the ailing hegemon was the Ottoman ... would push the Muslims aside and become the ruling elite. In early 1860, massacres were committed by the Druze community ...

All sorts of animals have been kept as pets over the centuries. We know of sparrows in Catullus and John Skelton. There is a badger with a collar in a fresco by Signorelli – probably not much more ...