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 ...

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The Geauga County Historical Society launched a new program this year to give children ages 5-7 a taste of 19th century life. Laketran, Geauga County honored by Ohio Public Transit Association Back in ...

While it is fun to learn about life in the 19th century, Ruby Schuiterman, a fifth-grade student at Dublin’s Daniel Wright Elementary School, said she is happy to be enjoying the trappings of the 21st ...

“Emma.” reimagines Jane Austen’s classic 1815 novel for contemporary audiences with a brilliantly witty and charming adaptation in director Autumn de Wilde’s debut. “Emma.” offers a quirky and ...

After 25 years of collecting contemporary art, George Loudon’s eye was caught by a display of 19th-century glass flowers at Harvard University. From those models by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, he ...

Hot on the heels of the Venice Biennale, an exhibition at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani pairs objects and illustrations from 19th-century life sciences from the George Loudon Collection in England with ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students are using a new technology to capture an old experience. Their virtual reality app simulates printing on a 19th-century cast iron hand-press that once ...

Nellie Murray, a celebrated 19th century New Orleans chef and caterer, will be remembered at the 'Nellie Murray Feast,' on Oct. 8. The five-course fundraising dinner supports the completion of Bess ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz - Correspondent Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), ...

Fox cottage was the family home of the Fox sisters, who started the Spiritualist movement of the mid-1800s. Credit - Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Influencers organizing around the ...