The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have shown that climate change, driven by human activity, was detectable as early as ...

In this age of high-speed (and low-cost) air travel, the question of what travelling was like in earlier times rarely comes to mind. We usually imagine a man on a horse or donkey who, like Don Quixote ...

Early and 19th-Century American Literature . Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in ...

Married to L. Clarke Davis, a prominent newspaper editor, she rubbed shoulders with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and other 19th century authors.

To learn more, the authors whipped up some mock substances containing those ingredients: recipes that 19th-century Danes could have created. The yeast proved an excellent emulsifier, creating a ...

In 19th-century literature, abortionists didn’t just carry out medical procedures – they were also accessories to murder. Photo credit: Library of Congress.

In 19th-century England, medical students could only legally dissect the bodies of murderers. But the demand for cadavers was high—and an illicit industry was born.

Christie’s will auction off a collection of rare 18th- and 19th-century American books and manuscripts belonging to Bruce M. Lisman later this month.

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several trips to Poland. Encounters there with Russification, censorship and political oppression made the influential Danish writer fall in love with the ...

The collaborative views of the 19th-century authors form an integral part of Philadelphia. “Philadelphia” has a dubious and ambiguous ontological status.