Rendered in dramatic shades of black, an 1883 print by the artist James Tissot depicts a young woman staring out at the ...

With their Lee Metford rifles, broadswords and daggers in their socks, they look like men you would not want to get on the ...

A team led by McGill University researchers came up with a method they hope could improve climate models over Africa by ...

Modern historians and scientists hail Wallace as one of the bravest figures of the 19th century. He possessed enough physical ...

Since the end of the eighteenth century Egypt has been a vital factor in European power politics. Its value as a bridge between Europe and the East was impressed upon British strategists and the world ...

A NEWSPAPER review of this book has come into our possession, which gives the impression that its most prominent feature is the treatment of biological questions such as the Darwinian theory.

Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

After the British Raj was established, the Indian kurta pajama became fashionable across Europe and was eventually adapted ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new ...

"Nineteenth century meteorology, like cartography, was part of a wider practice that sought to impose European science, and thus Europeans' ideas of 'civilization' on equatorial eastern Africa(ns ...