The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...

Taverns and saloons were an integral part of Irish and German immigrants’ lives and social connections in the 19th century. Social Turners, a German American gymnastics club, founded its Chicago ...

1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly imaginative. Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start ...

a curator at New York’s American Folk Art Museum, where an exhibition of art representing Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November. During that era, Black figures in art ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a ...

When Saint John Theatre’s Stephen Tobias spoke to the Saint John Senior Men’s Club on April Fool’s day, some of the men might ...

It may sound like a pipe dream. But fusion voting used to be commonplace in America and could help 'turn down the temperature ...

That was the rallying cry of London’s first vegetarian restaurant, which opened at 429 Oxford Street in 1879. The Alpha Food ...

or “conductors,” risked their lives to help enslaved people flee north to freedom in early 19th century America. It’s a story Keown believes is as undeniable as it is powerful. Visitors can ...

A trained pharmaceutical chemist, Lilly was an archetype of the dynamic and multi-talented 19th century American industrialist, who after his military career, and trying his hand at farming ...

As Miles Orvell writes in American Photography (2003): "Nature, in this 19th-Century context, was land to claim and defend in the name of the US government, it was a wild land to be exuberantly ...

Not all drink recipes have stood the test of time. Here are 15 old-timey drinks that no one enjoys anymore, for one ...