The press sensationalized the struggle to serve a cause and sell papers. And a new technology spread journalistic hot-takes throughout the nation with greater reach and speed than ever before.

With approximately 3 million photographs, the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is an overwhelming resource for theatrical history.

Designed by the same architect as St. Patrick's Cathedral, this townhouse in New York City's West Village just listed for $28 Million.

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By 1892, 27% of American millionaires resided in New York City, and the city's dominance as an epicenter for capitalist enterprise was so well established as to seem both natural and inevitable.

Passages of the Atlantic Mail Steamships from Liverpool to New York, from Sept. 21, 1850, to Jan. 1, 1851 ...

A 73-year-old New York woman has discovered her official voter registration card lists her birth year as 1850, aging her by a whopping 91 years.

NPR's Eric Deggans asks producer and director Peter Berg about his new Netflix series, "American Primeval," set in 1850s Utah.