In 1856, the Reverend John McKamie Wilson Jr., a Presbyterian minister and entrepreneur interested in clay science, relocated from North Carolina to Texas. There in the Capote Hills—a rural, sparse ...

Municipal elections were far different in the Spanish colonial period. In 1985, the late Glenn Anthony May, a historian of the Philippines, teased the civic ritual from 19th-century archival documents ...

Swords 1 to 6 have been identified as 19th century Dahomean swords and sword 7 is a European cutlass or couteau de chasse dated to the second half of the 18th century. Credit: Heritage (2025). DOI ...

A rare Victorian engine once used in an Edinburgh police building has been found in an attic during renovation work. The Crossley engine lay hidden for decades before it was discovered in the attic of ...

If you peer underneath the house, you’ll see charred wood nestled next to newer lumber – evidence of a 1953 fire that damaged parts of the 19th-century structure. The house is called Kaxátjaa ...

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had become increasingly urgent. Scientific discovery was accelerating, global trade was booming and industrial projects were growing in scale ...

Toronto is no stranger to church conversions, and over the years, we've seen dozens of historic sanctuaries transformed into multi-unit condos, each trying to squeeze a bit of soul into the ...

The old-monied family from San Francisco has lopped $10 million off the price of its century-old Green Gables Estate at 329 Albion Avenue, in the unincorporated tony town west of Stanford ...

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.

The property, which was briefly on the market for $180 million in 2020, has belonged to the Whitney family for more than a ...

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.

This lost community was a place of living memories, and for Marie Wilks it was her childhood world. The story of the three terraces - Single Row, Double Row, and New Row - has been told in a new ...