In 1819, Peale (whose son Raphaelle had painted Absalom Jones in 1810) went to Washington to record the likenesses of distinguished Americans; while there he heard about an old African man ...

From 1819 until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to involuntarily ...

By 1819, the year in which Krimmel exhibited Fourth of July Celebration in Centre Square, the event had become a largely white working class celebration, in contrast to earlier years when blacks ...

Mark Gatiss, from BBC’s Dracula, and Rolin Jones, from Interview with the Vampire, on why vampires are so popular.

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

The Panic of 1819 was America's first experience of the boom-bust cycle and the subsequent depression was one of the most dramatic economic crises experienced by the US during the nineteenth century.

From 1819 to 1969, some 18,000 Native American children were taken from their parents and forced to attend U.S. boarding ...

(WBRC) - Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway’s brother, Bruce, filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday, Oct. 4, against ...

Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest poets in American history. Born the second of nine children in straitened circumstances in New York in 1819, he left school at age 11 to help support his ...

On 16 August 1819 over 50,000 people gathered at St Peter's Field in Manchester to protest the right to vote, by the end of the day what became known as the Peterloo Massacre, would lead to the ...

About her alleged tense relationship with coworker Diana Asamoah, gospel singer Cecilia Marfo has spoken up. In a Kingdom FM ...

Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter, known as a man-eating monster.