During the 19th and 20th centuries, female reformers promoted the plantings for charity and to spur urban renewal. Then they ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic ... it was Henry Carey (1793-1879), a Philadelphia printer who later became President Abraham Lincoln’s economic adviser ...

The nearly complete date set of 19th-century $1 denomination gold coins was stored in a bank vault and safe deposit boxes in Philadelphia until recently. The once concealed collection consists of ...

In collaboration with William Foulke, the skeleton is retrieved from a New Jersey mineral pit in 1858 and will be fully assembled for display at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences ten ...

Philadelphia's Bible Riots of 1844 reflected a strain of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York Wading into the controversy ...

and the 19th-century Philadelphia Museum, with its bird skeletons and mastodon bones. The phrase “Jurassic technology” is not meant literally. Instead, it evokes an era when natural history ...

I have been preparing and selling ‘Dr. Taylor’s Celebrated Horse Powders’ for nearly five years,” he wrote in 1878, “and am ...

Once confined to the realm of medical necessity, prosthetics are now making a striking entrance into the fashion arena. This isn’t about restoring lost limbs; it’s about augmenting and ...