When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them ...

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

A derelict Exeter pub with a colourful history dating back more than 160 years could be turned into flats. The Oddfellows in New North Road has been a pub under a variety of names since the 19th ...

Washington Black is about an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation around 200 years ago, but one of its stars ...

He was a carpenter by trade, a wheelwright whose work demanded skill, endurance, and perseverance. Like many of his time, he ...

An unknown 19th-century portrait of UMD medical school founder has been discovered in a former Baltimore seafood restaurant’s closet.

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Aug. 10, the Summit Historical Society will be hosting its sixth annual vintage baseball game at Dillon Town Park. The free, ...

The soul and body of railroad brakeman Will “Wid” Somers were, in the words of the Allen County Democrat, “uncoupled” in December 1879.

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The hip-hop group is directing the world’s attention to Gaza. But it’s not the first Irish republican group to protest the ...

Despite decades of concern, restrictive practices remain common. A compassion-based approach could help change that.