In October 1830, 185 years ago, rural workers sought to protect their jobs in what became known as the the Captain Swing riots over the introduction of new threshing machines ... Swing but the name ...

Farmers have bred shorter wheat plants, with more grains and less chaff, so they can be easily threshed by a machine—but ... artifacts seized by 19th- and 20th-century European and American ...

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had become increasingly urgent. Scientific discovery was accelerating, global trade was booming and industrial projects were growing in scale ...

‘There is this intense rise in fascism’: Simon McBurney on a 19th-century opera that feels painfully familiar on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘There is this intense rise in fascism ...

Captain Silas Beebe was shipmaster and ice merchant from Groton who lived from 1782 to 1863. According to the Mystic River Historical Society, Beebe operated his businesses out of the harbor that ...

Simultaneously, it opened the gates for British machine-made textiles to flood ... The Britain in 19th century could only force its vision upon India because it wielded overwhelming military ...

The collection, which the Maillets began building in the 1960s, captures the breadth of this mid-19th-century energy. There’s the rush to capture the fledgling nation’s important monuments ...

A feature article, written by Edwards, highlights the deaf community in 19th-century New York told through the life of a Black deaf man. An essay in this issue addresses the challenges of writing ...

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...

Museum executive director David Wolf said the historic farm equipment is from the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company. “It was donated by the Smith Brothers. According to their family history ...

An award-winning lateral house in a charming London suburb is on sale for £7.5 million (US$9.7 million). The house in London’s quaint Belsize Park neighborhood has a 1860s traditional Arts and ...

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 ... flat-rolled steel, machine wires and welded tubes.