In the mid-19th century, a daring dream took shape as two nations celebrated the historic link created by an undersea cable beneath the English Channel. But one man, Frederic Newton Gisborne ...

They are in complete harmony with the heavy meals, strong drink, elaborate clothes, ornate furnishings, flamboyant art, melodramatic plays, loud music, flowery speeches and thundering sermons of ...

Some 75 per cent of transatlantic cables go through or close to Ireland. About $10 trillion in financial transactions go through the cables on a daily basis, according to the European Subsea Cable ...

19th Century White House Female Kitchen Staff The White House Historical Association joined with the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to look at the role of food and dining in ...

UK repeals 19th-century law In the amendment passed by British MPs, parts of the 1861 law will be revoked. The bill was originally passed by an all-male parliament that deemed that ending a ...

JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, VA –Soldiers are buttoning up 19th-century frocks, slipping into suspenders, and donning tricorn hats to march in the Army's 250th anniversary parade on June 14.

Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

The 19th century is often referred to as the “dark century” for child labor exploitation. In factories, children worked 13 to 15 hours a day, performing tasks that no machine could replicate.

In the late 19th century, studies of oyster grounds were rare, and scientific surveys almost always occurred after the habitat had been destroyed. Low densities of oysters became the scientific norm.