A historian made a unique discovery when he decided to look around an old mansion dating back to the 1870s. Dr. Paul O'Brien, an academic from Limerick, Ireland, was exploring a property known as ...

For a couple of years in the 1870s, before she was even a teenager, Avery was a bonafide menace to San Francisco society. Avery was fearless, showed no remorse and thought nothing of making a mockery ...

It is instead native to dry and semi-dry regions throughout Europe and central Asia. The Russian thistle made its first known appearance in North America in the 1870s, in Bonhomme County, South Dakota ...

In the 1870s, inspired by the rising indignation of Methodist and Baptist clergymen, and by distraught wives and mothers whose lives had been ruined by the excesses of the saloon, thousands of ...

A new book chronicling transformation on the plains of Kansas and western Colorado uses repeat photography—contemporary ...

A brush post mill is used to generate electricity in Cleveland, Ohio; in 1891 La Cour windmill is used to generate electricity. Josephine Cochrane invents and patents the first commercial dishwashing ...

1862 - The Gatling Gun is invented. 1869 - Center-fire cartridge introduced. 1870-1871- The Franco-German War. Breach-loaded guns are dominant. 1871 - First cartridge revolver. 1873 - Winchester ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

Flying in the face of this ideal, an ugly strain of nativism has run throughout American history as evidenced by virulent anti-immigrant movements that reared up in the 1790s, 1870s, and 1920s.

In the 1870s Smith published his translations of the work in several books—most notably in The Chaldean Account of Genesis. Smith’s career was short-lived. Despite the desire to travel to ...

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The ‘Scramble for Africa’ By the 1870s, most European countries were looking to expand their control in Africa. We can still see the impact of the Scramble for Africa today.