In the last half of the 19th century, America underwent a series of changes. The Civil War brought tensions over slavery to a head, and resulted in thousands of deaths. Following the conflict ...

Several decades ago, many of us enjoyed watching Robin Leach's television series Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and, more recently, we've tuned into the 1880s-era series The Gilded Age […] The post ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

In the last half of the 19th century, America underwent a series of changes. The Civil War brought tensions over slavery to a head, and resulted in thousands of deaths. Following the conflict ...