More than 250 newly digitized architectural drawings reveal how UVA rose from the ashes after the 1895 Rotunda fire.

Glenview, a 19th-century seasonal home built for millionaire banker John Bond Trevor and his family, has been painstakingly restored by the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York.

“Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the first time ever—William J. Wilson's idea.

The 19th century is a terrible guide to modern statecraft A world carved up between Presidents Trump, Xi and Putin would be unstable and unsafe ...

• Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on a 19th-century abortion law Wednesday • The court's decision was split 4-3 • The ruling addresses legal uncertainty that emerged after Roe v. Wade was ...

Wisconsin's top state court ruled on Wednesday that an 1849 state law banning abortion in virtually all cases cannot be enforced, rejecting claims it had been revived after a landmark U.S. Supreme ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery.

Inside the 19th-century Baltimore tradition that stubbornly persists Arabber Keith Chesley carefully fills the horse-drawn cart with vegetables and fruits to sell on the streets of Baltimore.

Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.

As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron- and steel-framed towers. Now, its custodians want people to know that.

Wool coats and 19th century hats: See costumes soldiers will wear at big Army parade Of the 7,000 soldiers from bases around the world that will appear in the parade, around a thousand will don ...

In a New York that still glowed amber-gold after dark from sodium streetlamps, the Tunnel nightclub distinguished itself for a seediness that appears, in retrospect, almost incredible. From 1986 to ...