Echoes from the Age of Industry and Empire
Explore some of the fascinating stories of the 19th century.
On the morning of July 2, 1881, President James A. Garfield was walking through the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., prepar...
In the misty dawn of June 28, 1880, police surrounding a hotel in Glenrowan, Australia, saw something that defied logic. Emerging from the bush was a ...
In the summer of 1888, the automobile was not considered the future of transportation; it was considered a public nuisance. It was loud, smelly, terri...
In the waning years of the 19th century, the United States was desperate to prove it had arrived on the global stage. The target of their ambition was...
In the latter half of the 19th century, while the rest of Europe was busy industrializing, forging steel, and drawing borders with blood and gunpowder...
In the annals of history, confidence tricksters hold a special, if somewhat notorious, place. We are often fascinated by the sheer audacity of those w...
On the afternoon of December 4, 1872, the crew of the British brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a vessel drifting erratically through the chopping waves o...
When the Brooklyn Bridge exploded with fireworks on its opening day in May 1883, the world marveled at the impossible made real. It was the longest su...