Family photos remain an important way of preserving our legacy for future generations. As time capsules of sorts, they gift ...

But for most of the century, much of the wealth of the state came from its farms. The 1850s were a time when reform was in the air in America.

It is the 21st century, believe it or not, and college students are learning Pennsylvania Dutch in a one-room, 19th-century schoolhouse in the state-of-the-art state university in Kutztown.

The 15,000-strong photo collection features everyday Chinese tradespeople from the mid-19th century, like this weaver. After being developed, some of the images were hand-colored by painters.

Despite the difficulty of travel with so much gear and a serious language barrier, his images show a genuine interest in the people that is unique for the time period. The images also show the talents ...

Shelburne Museum, Vermont / Bridgeman Images (2) When William Matthew Prior (1806-1873) painted Nancy Lawson in 1843, the Maine artist relied on familiar signifiers to portray a woman of wealth ...

Other images, perhaps mundane to us, were exotic in different contexts: an American woman on horseback, for example, was markedly gender non-conforming to the nineteenth-century Japanese.

Studios in the late 19th century referred to themselves as "artists and photographers" as aesthetics was a huge component of photography and a studio's commercial success would depend on its aesthetic ...

Comparison of Australia with other postcolonial nations provides a means for analyzing the material culture of 19th-century British colonization. Developments in Australia paralleled those in Canada, ...

Margaret Talbot reviews “Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America,” by Sarah Gold McBride.

These 19th-century images contain very young children held still by half-obscured adults who crouch behind chairs or lurk at the margins of pictures, their protective arms stabilizing babies.