"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

As we move our clocks forward an hour into British Summer Time, Alastair Bonnett considers the uses and abuses of one of the 19th century’s most beneficial inventions ...

A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

$60), an ambitious catalog of properties across Europe, ranging from the French chateau to the Italian villa to the Polish dwór to the German Schloss, inhabited by 19th-century moguls in such ...

Five months after deadly floods ravaged Valencia, the Spanish city is hosting its biggest celebration of the year.

Whether you're wanting a week filled with history and grand architecture, or want to eat your weight in local cheese and ...

The artwork and papier-mache sculptures are painstakingly crafted and then burned in Las Fallas, the most important yearly ...

A map published by Earth System Science Data shows the dramatic decrease in forest-covered land in the United States since the 17th century. Before European ... began in the 19th century, driven ...

What if China decided to sever American access to the drug ingredients your sick kid depends on? But America’s losing position in the biotechnology race with China has broader implications than just ...

Tens of thousands of tourists flock to Ireland each year for the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. But in the midst of the concerts ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy ... s National Health Service (NHS) in Europe created a much more structured system ...

“Most of the other relevant treaties are old too — 19th century ... Canada and the European Union immediately announced retaliation. At 12:01 a.m. Thursday, Canada imposed additional ...