Electoral corruption was rampant in the young democracies of 19th-century Europe. To obtain a competitive advantage, politicians would often buy votes and enlist mayors or policemen to mobilize or ...

DENVER (CBS4) - The Denver Art Museum will place 85 artworks in new galleries beginning Sunday as part of The 19th Century in European Art on display for visitors to see in its permanent collection.

This exhibition features outstanding nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures from the Museum’s permanent collection. Gifts of major art collections by James Bowdoin III in 1811 and Harriet Sarah ...

Midway through “Explorations in the Icy North,” Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund writes, “Science in the Arctic was shaped not only by the training and abilities of the explorers, but also by interaction ...

What began in a market in Wuhan, China, has spread as far afield as the Faroe Islands, and in response, a practice that began in a medieval republic on the Adriatic Sea is now official policy across ...

I have to pick a topic pertaining to 19th century Europe and write a 12 page research paper on it.<BR><BR>Simple enough, except I have no idea what the hell to pick.<BR><BR>I was going to do the ...

SOME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America First ...

The Victorian Era corset is a heavy duty clothing apparatus, capable of constricting a person's waist down to a dainty 17 inches. A slim midsection and an hourglass figure were all the rage in 19th ...