In 1795, the last of a series of partitions effectively wiped Poland off the map of Europe. Naturally the country and its citizens didn't vanish altogether, and the so-called 'Polish question' was an ...

Knowledge is power—and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations ... but the map was still considered valuable. In the mid-19th century the planisphere was stolen, only ...

This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to ...

Up until that time, if you drew a map of where ... the first measured century. WILLIAM CRONON: Turner is one of the new group of historians that emerges at the end of the 19th century, early ...

LONDON - A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten story of 19th century Black American abolitionists who raised their voices against racism and slavery. Read more ...

Other popular names that made it onto the map include Johnson ... arriving in the US when the first wave of European settlers ...

As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.

Gambling was central to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. By tracing the evolution of gambling and investigating the spatial qualities of the casino, this ...

How did Poland sound during the Partition era, the 123 years when it wasn't on the map? From folk music to Chopin, and from Wagner to Elgar, here’s 19th-century Poland set to music in 12 tracks full ...

Heinrich Heine, the German writer who coined the term, described the “veritable insanity” of the crowds, likening it to a disease that had spread throughout Europe ... Up until the beginning of the ...

The first weather maps in the 19th century were drawn well after the fact ... for frontal analysis began in the late 1910s across Europe, with its use finally spreading to the United States ...