In a society unmoored from traditional institutions, many men turn to self-styled gurus to answer the ancient question: What ...

The Jefferson County Historical Society’s Fashion Through the Eras will be held on Saturday, April 26, from 1 to 4 p.m. at ...

Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg exhibition, “Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress,” showcases more than 100 pieces ...

From a 1960s stockings advertisement to a 1970s floral paper dress, viewers can catch a glimpse into fashion trends across ...

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

As the world reels from US President Donald Trump's tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium ...

Chanel’s signature monochrome palette — the brand’s emblematic black and white — also seems to echo the visual simplicity of ...

Quebec tree rings dating back nearly 200 years indicate snowpack in the Gaspésie mountains has declined considerably in recent decades, Concordia University researchers suggest in a study that ...

More than merely a necessity or form of self-expression, throughout history fashion has been a means of storytelling, a type of communication. The Northport Historical Society (NHSM) and Museum’s ...

On the first claim, economic historians have long documented that the strongest industrial growth in the 19th-century U.S. took place in nontraded and nonprotected sectors such as transportation ...