Bengaluru became the first Asian city to light its streets electrically, thanks to Mysore royalty. A century earlier, Mysore ...

Many rural Irish Catholics in the mid-19th century had little opportunity for ... including typhus, smallpox, dysentery, and recurring fever, to name a few. Exported goods such as grain, beef ...

This spring, the New York State legislature has an opportunity to confront an overlooked yet troubling aspect of its criminal legal system.

Typically, we view New York from the ground, surrounded by enormous structures. It is nearly impossible to understand the ...

Baltimore orioles began to alight on the white clouds of Callery pear trees blossoms lining our driveway on April 26th, more ...

How Texas Made the West Wild," Bryan Burrough traces the paths of men who settled scores with pistols and called the Lone ...

Swords 1 to 6 have been identified as 19th century Dahomean swords and sword 7 is a European cutlass or couteau de chasse dated to the second half of the 18th century. Credit: Heritage (2025). DOI ...

Municipal elections were far different in the Spanish colonial period. In 1985, the late Glenn Anthony May, a historian of the Philippines, teased the civic ritual from 19th-century archival documents ...

The wreck captures a tragic moment in maritime history during the 19th century Australian gold rushes. The 800-ton sailing ship was beginning its journey back to the Netherlands in June 1857 when ...

A one-story industrial building in Milford, at 674 Naugatuck Ave., that was built in the late 19th century has sold for $1.68 million, according to the city’s property records. Milford residents ...

When Robert Francis Prevost chose the papal name Leo XIV, it could have meant many things. There were 13 Leos before him: The first, Leo the Great, was a fifth-century theologian who helped heal ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?