The beautifully detailed, early 19th-century map of the United States pictured above would be snapped up quickly by a collector if it were to hit the market today. But that’s not because it was ...

A rare 1861 Daedongyeojido map of Korea is expected to sell for up to $685,500 at Seoul Auction on Feb. 18.

In the early half of the 19th century, the Northern states, having Puritan backgrounds, viewed celebrating Christmas as sinful and frivolous. But in Southern states, Christmas was an important ...

In some states, opposition during the suffrage campaigns of the 1910s was founded on the fear that if the 19th Amendment were ratified, it would also mean that the federal government would then ...

All nations have origin stories and, over time, national narratives and myths, however contested. When, how and by whose pens and voices over the course of the 19th century did the United States ...

Follow in the footsteps of NYC guidebook authors circa 1866 with this map of Lower Manhattan.

For More Than 150 Years, Texas Has Had the Power to Secede…From Itself A quirk of a 19th-century Congressional resolution could allow Texas to split up into five states ...

The tactile map, an innovation of the 19th century, allowed both blind and sighted students to feel their way across a given geography. Writing for the ...

Southern Baptists are the largest evangelical Protestant group in the United States. Descended from Baptists who settled in the American colonies in the 17th century, Southern Baptists formed their ...