Nineteenth Century Life Chapters

This illustration, produced by Currier & Ives sometime between 1856 and 1907, depicts (in the foreground) whalers in an open boat hunting a Right ...

Packard's husband tries to send her away without any money or her children.

Threatening the Earps with a rifle, Ike Clanton breaks Tombstone's law against having guns in town.

William Makepeace Thackeray illustrates his own book; see a sampling of those pictures.

After the American Colonies declare their independence from Britain, the colonies begin printing their own money.

With no reason to suspect that Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde are the same person, Gabriel Utterson receives a letter written by Edward Hyde. The lawyer...

The complimentary colors and simple strokes of Japanese woodblock prints influence many Van Gogh paintings.

Inspector Fred Abberline is the lead detective on the Jack-the-Ripper cases.

Powerful allies are unable to reunite Edgardo with his parents.

Hines photographs young children working in adult jobs in mills.

Giuseppe Mazzini believed that for Italy to be free of foreign domination, Italians would have to revolt. It was good timing, since revolutions were h...

In the early-to-mid 19th century, foreign powers controlled many areas of the Italian Peninsula. This led to revolutionary fervor on the part of Itali...