Chicago World's Fair, "Rattlesnake King" Clark Stanley took the stage to promote his miracle product, "Stanley's Snake Oil." ...
The talk will explore the attempts made to improve working-class accommodation standards in Lancashire during the 19th ...
The Mount Olive AME Zion Church boasts a storied history that touches on almost all signature moments of Black history in the ...
Vogue explores the most viral scents of the 2000s and how the fragrance industry has evolved over the last 25 years.
On May 16, 1853, the Alexandria Gazette published an advertisement for “H. Weirman’s celebrated Ladies’, Misses, & Children’s ...
Most people have never heard of Veitastrond, a lost pocket almost unknown to the outside world despite “the finest ice scenery in Europe”.
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The phrase, which traces to 19th-century France, has become popular in casual conversation thanks to “The Bear,” and offers a ...
For generations, women have been the backbone of Assam’s tea industry, enduring harsh conditions, exploitation, and low wages ...
Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...
However, large-scale deforestation began in the 19th century, driven by agriculture, industrial logging, mining, railroad expansion, and urban growth. By 1860, about 153 million acres of forest ...