Ashdeen Lilaowala reimagines the timeless Parsi Gara embroidery by blending its intricate handwork with modern prints, ...

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They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...

Chinese troops had been using gunpowder against Mongols and other invaders since the 9th century. They soon discovered the escaping gas could propel arrows and by 1232 were using them to shoot ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a military ...

here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: – 19th century Opium Wars – In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium ...

A federal District Court two years ago temporarily blocked the abortion ban that originated in the 19th Century, but the state has appealed the decision to the 5th Circuit in an ongoing lawsuit ...

They studied hundreds of historical texts and their mood boards took inspiration from Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s paintings of deities and affluent 19th-century families. Their most valuable ...

Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...

Reading Michael Stutchbury’s article on Donald Trump (“‘Liberation day’ risks going back the ’90s. The 1890s”) makes it far easier to understand the US president’s obsession with the ...

(WRIC) — Users can now view a new historic map of Goochland County, which provides people the chance to see county maps from as early as the 19th century, according to the Library of Virginia.