In 1901, the city government of Amsterdam passed the Woningwet (“Housing Act”). Greenlighting the long-awaited demolition of ...

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

Walking Through the Five Points Slums of New York Vintage illustration shows a policeman bringing a group of upper class New Yorkers through Five Points, a notorious 19th century slum in Lower ...

As the number of farmer holders over age 65 increases, what will happen to the land of those without a succession plan in ...

In a new book — London's Lost Pubs — Sam Cullen goes on a epic crawl of over 200 of the most interesting erstwhile boozers, ...

Find out more about the gothic-style manor house built just outside a Bucks town that is now used as a care and nursing home.

One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

Research on Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women offers a poignant window into a past we only thought we knew.

Estimates say that millions of dollars and tens of thousands of acres of land throughout New England were given to soldiers ...

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 ...

Sex workers sit outside tin shacks in narrow alleyways, calling for customers. Nearby a Médecins Sans Frontières triage centre is the only reminder that this slum area is the epicentre of the mpox ...