Trash or Treasure: Dutch painting example of folk art

Groen says the family had a history of art appreciation. Walker said that the Netherlands has a long art tradition, adding ...
The News Leader on MSN

Staunton's rich architecture from the 19th century is a must-see

Explore Staunton, Virginia's rich architectural history, shaped by architect Thomas Jasper Collins.

From Pathology to Prohibition: Conversion Truth for Families on a Century of Conversion Therapy and the Science That Dismantled It

An examination of how a practice rooted in 19th-century psychiatric theory survived clinical repudiation, evolved through religious institutions, and became the subject of sweeping legislative action ...
WHYY

Library Company displays patient memoirs from 19th-century asylums

Patient memoirs of 19th-century asylums tell the good, the bad, and the ugly from the early days of institutional mental health treatment. Before and after photos show women who were given the rest ...
NJ.com

Ballantine mansion recalls Black Women of the 19th Century

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...
Brownstoner

Parties, Gossip and Too Much Brew: How 19th Century Brooklynites Celebrated the New Year

Editor’s note: This post has been updated. Read the original post here. For those following the Gregorian calendar, and that’s most of us, that magic moment when the old year ends in the last seconds ...
Hackaday

19th Century Photography In Extreme Miniature

Ever since the invention of the microscope, humanity has gained access to the world of the incredibly small. Scientists discovered that creatures never known to exist before are alive in an ...
Hyperallergic

Revisiting America’s Dead in Posthumous Portraits from the 19th Century

Ambrose Andrews, “The Children of Nathan Starr” (Middletown, Connecticut, 1835), oil on canvas, 28 3/8 x 36 1/2″ (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Nina Howell Starr, in ...
The Conversation

Vigilantes at the polls were a threat in the 19th century, too, but the laws put in place then may not work in 2022

Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre fiction, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers” kidnapped and drugged him. They ...
Marketplace

What female entrepreneurs of the 19th century can teach us about the modern economy

On “Marketplace,” we talk a lot about disaggregated economic data — that’s information about the economy broken down into categories such as race, gender, age and other variables. But much of that ...