Like many big cities, Washington, D.C., had several large markets where residents shopped daily for foodstuffs. Center Market, Washington’s largest, was built in 1871. Located at 7th Street and ...

As part of the great migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, some 200,000 African Americans moved ...

But, its historic charm isn't the only draw for this 19th-century city, which served as a prominent ... The grounds also ...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

behind New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. British trade unions sponsored the emigration of British artisans during the end of the nineteenth century, as a means of decreasing the skilled ...

In what was either a bold challenge or a veiled brush off, he asked that she write a story about the mentally ill housed at a large institution in New York City. She did, impersonating a mad ...

If you loved the Tudor-style castle we profiled, you’ll eat this 19th-century castle in New Jersey ... eight-and-half bath ...

The twice-yearly ritual has roots in cost-cutting strategies of the late 19th century. A recent effort ... those dates are March 31 and Oct. 27.) American lawmakers in 1966, writing in the Uniform ...

When walking on the Pearl Street between Seneca and Swan Streets, one can take a journey through a commercial architecture timeline of the mid to late 19th Century. It is also a story of ...

The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 98, Issue. 1, p. 620. A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely ...

The transit telescope at the Allegheny Observatory was used to measure sidereal time, or “star time,” the basis for modern ...

Pensacola will soon have funding to preserve and commemorate the lost 19th-century African American cemetery in Miraflores Park. Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves announced Tuesday that the city was the ...