In this blog post, Shauna Devine, Ph.D., chronicles the introduction of general inhalation anesthesia and how it transformed medical and surgical practice in the mid-19th century.

Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into ...

Photography is an art that often gets taken for granted today. With smartphones now a ubiquitous form of communication, the ability to create high-quality images at any given moment is the norm. But ...

Photography was still relatively new in 1861 as the Civil War began, but when America’s bloodiest conflict ended four years later, it had become possibly the most photographed event of the 19th ...

Mid-19th-century Americans lived with an odd combination: an unprecedented ability to spread information, but also a siloed and partisan system of interpreting it. It helped the nation finally reckon ...

An historical marker honoring the Rev. Dr. William Jefferson White, who fought for civil and religious rights, will be dedicated in Augusta on Thursday.

They’re now trying to identify human remains from the 19th century, a rare endeavor that will include searching for living descendants and requesting swabs of DNA.

Built in the early 19th century, the farmhouse stood vacant for decades, slowly succumbing to the elements. ... Earlier: Pre-Civil War farmhouse repurposed into art space in Brandywine Hundred.