The Nation

The View From Whitehall

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? As the British political establishment rushes blindly toward the Gadarene ...
Smithsonian Magazine

19th-Century America’s Partisan Warfare

In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America’s furious and fractious politics Jon Grinspan - Curator, political history, National Museum of American History ...
University of California

What 19th century politics can teach us about today

A bitter election. Social unrest and violence at home and abroad that seem to augur ruinous times. A gaping political divide fed in part by new technology and ways to communicate. Sound familiar?
PBS

19th Century Ice Age & How Air Conditioning Shaped History

A look at the 19th century Ice Age and how air conditioning shaped history. The genesis of the frozen water trade and the clever uses of ice developed to win over a skeptical public. Also, mechanical ...
insider.si.edu

National Museum of American History Explores 19th-Century Firefighting

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will explore firefighting in 19th-century America with the display “Always Ready,” a title drawn from a common motto of the fire companies of the ...
c-span

University of Alabama's 19th Century History

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Smithsonian Magazine

The Thorny Road to the 19th Amendment

The program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in the capital city. This march occurred before the rift between the more moderate NAWSA and the less conciliatory National ...
Slate

The Richest Fashionistas Used to Recycle Clothes as a Matter of Habit. What Happened?

This piece, which is adapted from the book Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (MIT Press), was originally published by the MIT Press Reader and has been republished here with ...
Telefónica

History of telecommunications

Telecommunications began to take on special relevance in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph, although ...
Times Union

A hidden treasure fills in Rhinebeck’s 19th-century history

RHINEBECK — One man’s cluttered attic is another man’s “missing link” to a community’s history. That first man is Jeff Strong, 82. He’s the grandson of Jacob H. Strong, who, in 1907, bought the ...
CNN

Rare 19th-century condom with erotic etching goes on display at Dutch museum

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix, the ...
University of California

Whiskers and locks: reading U.S. history through hair

Sarah Gold McBride never set out to write about hair. It’s a research topic that has, well, grown during her extended academic career at Berkeley — offering a window onto the history of popular ...