Echoes from the Age of Industry and Empire
Explore some of the fascinating stories of the 19th century.
In the scorching August of 1856, deep within the idyllic Neander Valley of Prussia, a team of quarrymen were busy blowing up the landscape. As they cl...
Picture the American West in the summer of 1875. The pioneers and farmers of the Great Plains had endured drought, harsh winters, and financial panics...
In 1887, the city of Paris was preparing to host the 1889 Exposition Universelle, a grand world's fair intended to celebrate the centennial of the Fre...
In the early 19th century, to be born blind—or to lose your sight as a child—was often an unwritten sentence to a life of destitution. For most, it me...
Look down at your hands, or at the screen you are using to read this. The arrangement of letters on your keyboard makes absolutely no sense. The most ...
The bicycle craze of the 1890s transformed the Victorian world. The bicycle was the smartphone of its era—a revolutionary piece of technology that gav...
When we picture the quintessential Victorian lady, a specific image usually comes to mind: corsets, fainting couches, polite parlor conversation, and ...
In the closing decade of the 19th century, the global medical establishment held one rule as an absolute, unquestionable dogma: the human heart was st...