US police departments began taking photographs of people they arrested in the 1850s.

A contemporary scholar uses the ancient Greek historian to explain the 1968 Pueblo Crisis in North Korea.

The first manuals for knitting were printed in the 1830s. Those interested in the history of knitting will find them a rich primary source for research.

A series of reforms known as the Patriotic Health Campaign brought colorful posters depicting good hygiene and workplace safety practices.

Not everyone in the nineteenth century was on board with expanding the territory of the US from coast to coast.

Assigning one sex to people with ambiguous genitalia has a long history in medicine and law.

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The manly knight wouldn't have lasted a day in sixteenth-century combat. So why was he so popular as a literary figure at the time?

Dogs were prolific hunters and warm companions for northeastern Native peoples like the Mi'kmaq.

Some journalists are turning to newsletters to get their work out. But they're not hand-copying them onto folded paper, like people did in the 1600s.