During the late 1800s, mental health care was a dark and often terrifying world hidden behind the walls of asylums. Few dared ...

The 1800s were a time of great discovery, but also deep misunderstanding. Long before science caught up with superstition, people held on to odd beliefs that shaped their daily lives. Strange medical ...

The late 19th and early 20th centuries were full of inventions such as this--the "Pinkert Navigating Tricycle," which was meant to be used on water. Scientific American As billions of people around ...

Historians have shown that, during the 1800s, beads produced in Venice were a key commodity exchanged for ivory along the ...

There is plenty of pre-Internet stuff on the Internet, but Tweets of Old takes it to a new level — the really old stuff. Culled from late 19th and early 20th century headlines and brief newspaper ...

Three men and a young boy pose for a photo at a dammed section of the DuPage River in Naperville’s Burlington Park, where one of the men was fishing sometime in the late 19th century. Burlington Park ...

A lot has changed in Shreveport since the 19th century. Some of those changes have been extraordinarily good for our culture, but others haven’t been as helpful. Did you know you could hop a train in ...

The late 1800s marked the birth of the automobile industry, introducing machines that mixed engineering innovation with experimental design. While these vehicles are crucial to the history of ...

As President Donald Trump promises that more tariffs will be coming, he has pointed to history to explain his fervor for imposing taxes on imports. “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s ...

Tension: The modern quest for peak output relies on apps and hacks, yet a century-old regimen of dawn light, slow breathing, and handwritten planning outperforms digital churn. Noise: “Rise and grind” ...