Mother's Day falls on Sunday, May 11. The holiday's origins date back to the mid-19th century, according to the Smithsonian Institution. West Virginia activist Ann Jarvis organized "Mothers' Work ...

It was essential to alloy with copper to make bronze, which for many centuries was the preferred ... As such it forms a vital part of the tools and weapons of the 21st century. Cornwall’s tin ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs with women to his lack of deference to his so-called superiors ...

He's often credited as a founder of French gastronomy and of Grande Cuisine (classic French cuisine which was at its most lavish during the 19th Century). However, according to Paul Freedman ...

Anyone who has had the chance to visit Angkor, Cambodia and its temples could not help but be impressed by the stone splendors, echoes of the opulence and grandeur experienced by the Khmer Empire ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

Sepia Times//Getty Images A 16th century bronze coin depicting King Matthias Corvinus The excavation team suspected the skull had some regal connection; the Basilica had been the site at which all ...

Whoa. What’s with all that traffic on Elm Street? At around 11 a.m. Monday, cars sat bumper to bumper in all three east-bound lanes of Elm Street starting at York. Near the intersection with High ...

In death, however, the 19th-century Habsburg monarch has joined a long list of historical women reimagined in 21st-century popular culture as feminist heroines—much to some historians’ chagrin.

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.