The androids’ hardware and software can generate comedy or tragedy. But either way, these 19th-century automatons on 21st-century stages reaffirm that the uncanny valley stretches centuries into ...

Thick plumes of smoke were spotted bursting out of the roof of a historic 19th-century Soho building early Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm blaze at 451 Broome St.

Intended to regulate Black women and reinforce the racial hierarchy, these tignon laws had the opposite effect: Creole women ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

The 19th century was a period of rapid technological change, and huge shifts in scientific understanding. As medical knowledge increased, the prospect of surgery was no longer a likely death sentence, ...

For almost a century and a half of our nation’s history, women were barred from exercising this fundamental right. This is a film about their long, difficult struggle to win the right to vote. It’s ...

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The style of the woolen cloak in which she was wrapped dates this woman to the late 16th century, distinguishing ... is tied in an elaborate hairstyle called a Swabian knot. The Roman historian ...

When Kaila Landau first placed her “Salon coming soon” sign outside her Little Shop of Hairdos at 6283 Old Olympic Highway, she thought that “I would do a couple of haircuts a day, and I would paint ...

Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.

Marie Antoinette remains infamous for her decadent spending, but what extravagances did the last queen of France really spend ...