The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

In death, however, the 19th-century Habsburg monarch has joined a ... At the time, Austria was the largest state in Europe besides Russia, with about 40 million residents. The borders of the ...

Chekhov’s work can just as easily be transported from 19th-century Russia to a contemporary West Virginia or Ireland without strain. Its nimbleness has become especially apparent to me over the ...

Kristi Noem during a televised campaign in Mexico.Gobierno de Estados Unidos Trump has traded the common destiny of both nations for Manifest Destiny, that 19th-century political doctrine that relied ...

It is also the only way for Russia to directly access the Mediterranean Sea — through the vital Turkish-controlled Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits — and by extension, southern Europe, Africa, West ...

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

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Drone footage has captured a fire that broke out at a derelict 19th Century church. More than 20 firefighters were sent to Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on Station Road in Port ...

The house sits within JP's Stonybrook neighborhood, a subset of Parkside that contains many houses of similar age, dating back to the mid-19 th century. “This house represented the history of ...

As a university student in 2007, Howard Amos volunteered in a summer camp at an orphanage for children with mental and physical disabilities near the city of Pskov, in the northwest corner of Russia.

Jutting out into the Black Sea off southern Ukraine, Crimea was absorbed into the Russian Empire along with most ethnic Ukrainian territory by Catherine the Great in the 18th century. Russia's ...

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had become increasingly urgent. Scientific discovery was accelerating, global trade was booming and industrial projects were growing in scale ...