The story of how a boy from Providence, Rhode Island, became "the most wonderful tattooed man ever known in the civilized world" involves menacing sailors and voyages across the sea, and was recently ...
In Tom Crewe’s fascinating debut novel, The New Life, the young author provides a fictionalized account of a late 19th-century gay man who set out to change the way England viewed homosexuality. The ...
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 ...
Looking for war movies specifically set in the 1800s? Here are the best ones you can check out now.
Actors, according to a melancholy and self-pitying theatrical proverb of the nineteenth century, “carve figures in snow.” Joseph Jefferson understood this unhappy truism, belonging as he did to the ...
You’ve might have heard the story of Phineas Gage, the 19th century construction foreman who was impaled through the brain with a tamping rod, but lived a relatively normal life. Researchers at UCLA ...
The Neal Auction Company showroom on Magazine Street sizzled with anticipation Friday afternoon as bidding began on a circa 1840 painting of an enslaved man named Frederick. The auctioneer, Michelle ...
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