Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! American University Distinguished Professor of History Alan Kraut discussed the immigration of Irish, Germans and Scandinavians to the United States ...

During the early 1800s, before the arrival of the railroads, Vermont farmers took turkeys to markets as far away as Boston on foot. WikiCommons photo (“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about ...

For those of you despairing about the nasty tenor of elections today, the ugly partisanship of politics, the polarity of the press: Be happy you weren’t around in the 19th century. Fox News vs. MSNBC?

Leather fire buckets were painted with names so that when the fire was over, they could be returned to their owners. NMAH In the 1800s, families kept a bucket in the front hall of their homes in the ...

Justine Rayfield rolls out a pie crust according to the specifications of the early 1800s. Her husband Ron hand-built the rustic cabin where they shoot videos for their YouTube channel, Early American ...

(This is Part 8 in a decade-by-decade series undertaken this year - York's 275th anniversary year. York, in the first decade of the 1800s, experience the changing of the guard. Two of its most ...

Homeopathy is a system of natural medicine developed by German physician Samuel Hahnemann. In the United States homeopathic medicine evolved in parallel with the practice and teaching of conventional ...

If you could take a time machine and return to the very early part of the 1800s in England or America during the holiday season, you would be amazed at what you wouldn't see. Gifts, cards, the tree ...

The urban idea of stacking people's homes one on top of the other is very old: The Romans thought of it; so did the Egyptians. In European cities and in New York, by the early 1800s, the constraints ...

The newest historical marker commemorating Oakwood’s beginnings has been installed. It honors Four Mile Tavern, a building that dated to the early 1800s, according to the Oakwood Historical Society.