Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

Love will soon be in the air with Valentine’s Day, and as the old saying goes, the way to many of our hearts is through our ...

Husna-Tara Prakash, Sreemati Mukherjee and Devasis Chattopadhyay discuss Kolkata as a vibrant city in the 19th century at ...

The US returning to the politics of the late 19th century raises the prospect of greater inequality, oligarchy, imperialism ...

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

Pasta shapes like penne, rigatoni, and cavatappi owe their existence to a combination of technological innovation and ...

When it comes to Jane Austen-inspired books and movies, Helen Fielding’s book-turned-movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary” is one of the most recognizable. Not only did the novel help shape the modern ...

Some background behind the historical ties between the people of Gaza, the West Bank, British Mandate Palestine and the wider Muslim world.

Prohibiting homeschooling parents from using parish facilities can make it more difficult for them to provide a comprehensive Catholic education.

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

A longstanding Sinophobia in the U.S. goes back to the 19th century, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, the tax on Chinese miners during the Gold Rush, and ...