There are historical figures who, for various reasons, transcend their status to become paradigms of something; in the case ...

click image for close-up This engraving from the April 30 ... time in Richard Allen's Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia in 1830. By the 1850s, when the Illustrated News published this image ...

In 1830, Reichenbach published Ms experiments ... The rim, a portion of which is shown at the upper right hand corner of the engraving is corrugated as there plainly shown. The spokes are inserted ...

In 1829, the Greeks finally achieved independence. Records indicate that when Bavarian soldiers arrived in Athens in the 1830s to drive the remaining Turks from the Acropolis, they took up ...

The United States has long conceived of itself as a haven for immigrants, a place welcoming of any person, no matter their origin, to begin a new life as an American. Flying in the face of this ...

Ornate Georgian jewelry dates from 1714 to 1830; the Victorian era ... You should also look out for charges for resizing, engraving, converting (i.e. earrings into charms, a pendant into a ...

Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to ...

Reader question: One thing I have been reminded of almost daily now ... are the two ugly, long abandoned concrete blocks on North Chestnut Avenue ... If memory serves me correctly, these two ...

Millard Fillmore, the 13th US president, is remembered for his role in the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to ease tensions ...

He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, nestled against the Missisippi River on the edge of the American frontier in the 1830s. He ...

A hand-coloured engraving of a wheat harvest in 1800s America ... a way of life for many in southern Scotland. Between 1760 and 1830, struggling tenant farmers left the lowlands in droves.