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D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...

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Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

NOTHING in all history had ever succeeded like America, and every American in the nineteenth century knew it. Nowhere else on the globe had nature been at once so rich and so generous, and her riches ...

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a ...

A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of Now You See It, Now You Don’t. In the beginning, not a whisper ...

Last Updated on September 23, 2025 by Matt Staff The closing years of the nineteenth century were marked by rapid change. From 1895 to 1899, society balanced between tradition and the modern age, ...

In this age where anyone can navigate any city around the globe like a local, with a simple tap of a smart phone, a new exhibition has the viewer step back in time to a far different way of exploring ...

Explore the controversial claims surrounding Albert Pike's alleged letter predicting three world wars, including details on ...