Old City composer and amateur archeologist Melissa Dunphy has composed a new opera, Alice Tierney, inspired by the story of a 19th-century woman whose murder at her home has remained unsolved for ...

As Madame Renards' balloon was being inflated, it suddenly burst into flames. While one unfortunate bystander had his ...

In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth ... the twentieth century. Cities became the location of most of American life: politically ...

"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

They refused to allow the city ... The late 19th century had seen great strides in public health provision and hygiene. However, there was still a lot of ill health. In 1900, average life ...

George Custer, but his claim to fame was as Altoona’s “Golden Age” architect at the turn of the 19th century ... Presbyterian and the Mountain City Hebrew Synagogue (the present-day Holy ...