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 ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Life on the Erie Canal in the 19th century is being kept alive by a local historian. Victoria Schmitt, a local independent culture historian, has studied the Erie Canal and Rochester ...
A historic sepia photo split in two: on the left, people stand outside the "Man at the Wheel Saloon"; on the right, a well-dressed Black couple poses in formal Victorian-era attire. This piece ...
A total of 163 people attended the 117th Central Mine reunion. Jeff Curto The morning sun pierces the windows of Michigan’s Central Mine Methodist Church, suffusing in a brilliant hue the pages of ...
The words of a young Quaker woman in the late 19th century will come to life Saturday at the Drumore Friends Meetinghouse. Though it hasn’t been used for a regular Quaker meeting in nearly 90 years, ...
The photographers of the 19th century would have gaped disbelievingly at the idea that a small rectangular object could instantly capture an image from life — one that could be reproduced immediately, ...
The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects ...
USI’s Heritage Artisans Days returns April 23–24 with live demonstrations of 19th‑century trades.
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