The enduring influence of the egalitarian religious sect known as the Shakers is on full view at Vitra Design Museum.

The Shaker village at Mount Lebanon ... they were virtually the only 19th-century Americans to uphold the principle of gender equality. Their prohibition against marital and sexual relations ...

The Mid-Century Modernist movement was more than an aesthetic or material shift in the United States, as it was a response to a rapidly changing world. Emerging after World War II, this ...

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. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...

A previously unknown shipwreck lying in nearly 70 meters of water off the coast of Estonia's largest island, Saaremaa, may be of a British collier which sank in the mid-19th century. The site has been ...

Photographer Eric Baillies' 'Temporal Bridge - Shadows of Milwaukee' exhibition, which opens on June 5, offers views of 21st century Milwaukee captured with 19th century technology. You just may ...

Skeletal remains found on different beaches along the Jersey Shore belong to the captain of a 19th century ship that sank off the coast of Atlantic County, investigators announced this week.

A notorious 19th century Scottish con artist who went by more than 40 aliases once duped crofters on Skye with a wild promise of a better life, thousands of miles away in a swamp. Annie Gordon ...