Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...

What is clear is that Discipline and Punish, at 50, has lost none of its provocative power. Nor, any of its relevance. Our ceaseless technological and social transformations continue to engender new ...

We recognize the loss of mental health as first and foremost a medical issue today, but there was a time when the distorted ...

Explore the most haunted places in the world, from eerie castles to abandoned asylums. Discover chilling stories, ghostly ...

Now a richer history of Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks has lifted the lid on what everyday life for women was like at the former female immigration depot and asylum during the 19th century.

The 19th Battalion was raised at Liverpool in New South Wales in March 1915 as part of the 5th Brigade. A large number of the 19th's original recruits had already served with the Australian Naval and ...

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Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks was built between 1817 and 1819 to house male convicts. The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th ...

Registers of baptisms and marriages for many Staffordshire nonconformist churches from the late eighteenth century, and registers of deaths ... Patient Records of County Asylums, later Mental ...

The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th century Australian immigration. After the end of convict transportation to New South Wales ...

The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th century Australian immigration. After the end of convict transportation to New South ...