As we move our clocks forward an hour into British Summer Time, Alastair Bonnett considers the uses and abuses of one of the 19th century’s most beneficial inventions ...

Long before Northam High Street took its current form around 1800, the peninsula held historical significance.

Some neighborhoods used to be independent communities. Others started out artificially. And some simply don't exist any more.

The Italian city has been shaken by its strongest earthquake in 40 years, and is part of a growing pattern of seismic unrest across Southern Europe. Environmental scientist Deborah R. Coen looks at ...

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

A map published by Earth System Science Data ... However, large-scale deforestation began in the 19th century, driven by agriculture, industrial logging, mining, railroad expansion, and urban ...

In addition, Tomasi included in his novel the historical realities of Italy at the time, the changes that were taking place during the Risorgimento (unification of Italy), this was a 19th century ...

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

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Institute of Technology is sharing history through technology in a kind of time travel experience. RIT's 3D digital design program created an interactive virtual reality ...

inhabited by 19th-century moguls in such industries as textiles, finance, sugar, opium, coal. The flexible category proves a rich source of material in scholarly essays collected by Juliet Carey ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision of America includes the imperial policies of the 19th century. He has touted the vision of ‘manifest destiny’ for the expansion of the United States.

Readers may wish that the maps, grouped at the front of the book ... is because the partition of the late 19th century was not a dramatic break with all that had gone before.