At the dawn of the 19th century, an Irish immigrant named Alexander Brown arrived in Baltimore and set up shop as a linen merchant. The firm that he founded would evolve into one of America’s most ...

David S. Reynolds places Abraham Lincoln in the context of his era’s attitudes toward the frontier, religion, law, marriage, politics and slavery. (iStock) Review by Louis P. Masur There are some ...

As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...

Maidment with early 19th-century periodicals: he was thrilled by ‘the inky blackness of the lettering, shouting display types and perpetually inventive combination of type, image and white page’ ...

A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of Now You See It, Now You Don’t. In the beginning, not a whisper ...

This course presents an introduction to nineteenth-century art and the ideas that fostered its creation. The purpose of the class is to provide an in-depth overview of the major themes, artists, and ...

The Dickens Project, a multi-campus research unit headquartered at UC Santa Cruz and focused on the study of 19th-century Anglophone literature and culture, was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from ...

"A time-travel fantasy" and the largest privately-owned home in the US, Biltmore House was George W Vanderbilt's "American chateau built on the scale of a European palace". It came to encapsulate the ...