LGBTQ Nation

In “The New Life,” a 19th-century gay man fights for acceptance as Oscar Wilde is tried ...

In Tom Crewe’s fascinating debut novel, The New Life, the young author provides a fictionalized account of a late 19th-century gay man who set out to change the way England viewed homosexuality. The ...
The New York Times

Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th-Century Life

The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects ...
The Herald-Mail

Lecture to reveal untold stories of 19th-century Clear Spring

Learn how Clear Spring residents lived through winter in the 1800s at a Jan. 18 lecture featuring rare stories and historic ...
MutualArt.com

Floral Still Life, 19th Century

Sight 34 3/4 x 57 1/4 inches (88.3 x 145.4 cm) Frame 45 x 67 x 3 inches ...
insider.si.edu

From natural philosophy to the sciences : writing the history of nineteenth-century science ...

Looking at nineteenth-century science: an introduction / David Cahan -- Biology / Robert J. Richards -- Scientific medicine / Michael Hagner -- The earth sciences / David R. Oldroyd -- Mathematics / ...
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Local historian shares slang used in 19th-century Erie Canal life

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Life on the Erie Canal in the 19th century is being kept alive by a local historian. Victoria Schmitt, a local independent culture historian, has studied the Erie Canal and Rochester ...