Echoes from the Age of Industry and Empire
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If you think modern celebrity scandals and identity theft are uniquely 21st-century problems, the Victorian era has a story that will make you reconsi...
In the late 19th century, the map of the world was rapidly filling in. The blank spaces that had taunted cartographers for centuries were vanishing, c...
If you were to step into a high-society ballroom in the mid-19th century, you would be greeted by a spectacle of opulence. Gaslights flickered against...
On a freezing, moonlit night in February 1864, the calm waters of Charleston Harbor concealed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. While ...
On Whit Monday, May 26, 1828, the shoemakers of Nuremberg, Germany, witnessed a sight that would spark one of the 19th century’s most enduring mysteri...
On a calm morning in November 1820, thousands of miles off the coast of South America, the impossible happened. A creature of flesh and blood declared...
In the autumn of 1870, the "City of Light" went dark. The Prussian army, a highly efficient machine of war, had encircled Paris, severing all rail lin...
When we think of vampires in the 19th century, our minds instinctively drift to the foggy, cobblestone streets of Victorian London or the foreboding c...