Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American “crazy quilt,” a porcelain night light, an Early American pattern glass carafe, an aeronautical school ...

A collection of photographs of the people and landscapes along a rough trail into Alaska's interior, taken nearly 125 years ...

Mexico's forgotten 19th-century invaders were fortune seekers who tried repeatedly to colonize the Baja California Peninsula ...

When you glance at a map of West Africa, one border stands out as unusually narrow and oddly shaped — The Gambia. It’s often ...

The thin air above cloud level. The views over snow-tipped mountains. The climbs over boulder and scree, and the first gasp ...

The thin air above cloud level. The views over snow-tipped mountains. The climbs over boulder and scree, and the first gasp ...

Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world's oldest person, has died at 116, her religious ...

Trump’s mixture of racism and hunger for power is setting him on a historical collision course, scholars told HuffPost.

In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...