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This season marks the 150th anniversary of the first professional baseball team and the start of its eye-popping 81-game winning streak.
Lessons from the British 19th century protests over electoral reform about the significance of crowd sizes.
Women’s solo sex can be taboo even today. But in 17th century England it featured in many texts from poetry to medical books, suggesting knowledge or even acceptance of female self-pleasure.
In 1910, along one 45-block stretch of New York City’s Fifth Avenue, there were only 13 trees.
Screen time wasn’t a issue in the 19th century but that didn’t stop concerns over how new developments might damage eyesight
As a left-wing rallying cry, this account of the 1819 massacre in Manchester fails to rouse the inner revolutionary.
To survive in 19th-century newsrooms, reporters would have to hustle to get by, even if it meant producing fakes, staging events and sharing work with reporters from competing newspapers.
Climate science in the computer age is the pursuit of elite scientists. A historian of science sees an upside to the popular, participatory approach of studying changes to the climate from the 19th century.
Torontonians have been experiencing pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities since the advent of the automobile. The one way to stop the deaths is to ban cars but since that won’t happen, what can be done?
Nothing displays the ethical superiority of one’s values better than to treat a foe with the respect due another human being.
In the 19th century, puddings were as popular and widespread as pasta dishes are today.
Thoreau spent his life pursuing the ‘hard bottom’ of truth. But he confronted a sensationalist newspaper industry that, in many ways, mimicked today’s media environment.
What can we learn from the 19th-century Qing dynasty?
The likes of Charles Darwin and Humphry Davy weren’t always seen as the powerful, authoritative heroes they’re portrayed as today.
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