European society was affected by the Industrial Revolution and by the late nineteenth century and above all the middle classes were gaining greater economic and social power than ever before. These ...

Rendered in dramatic shades of black, an 1883 print by the artist James Tissot depicts a young woman staring out at the ...

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Built in 1897, Kimberly Crest is a testament to the fact that sometimes, reality can be even more fantastic than fiction.

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory of evolution alongside Charles ...

Since the end of the eighteenth century Egypt has been a vital factor in European power politics. Its value as a bridge between Europe and the East was impressed upon British strategists and the world ...

A NEWSPAPER review of this book has come into our possession, which gives the impression that its most prominent feature is the treatment of biological questions such as the Darwinian theory.

The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.

Important studies like Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa and Black Americans and the Evangelization of ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new ...

Like some misleading, clickbait title from the 19th century, Cleopatra’s Needles have no connection to the legendary queen.

A team led by McGill University researchers came up with a method they hope could improve climate models over Africa by combining them with 19th century missionary records, refashioning dubious docume ...