This event was documented in the local newspaper, the Nuremberg Gazette. The 19th Century: Airship Sightings The 19th century ...

A marine salvage firm has found the wreck of a long lost French steamship about 200 miles off New Bedford, Massachusetts ...

"What got you into astrophysics?" It's a question I'm often asked at outreach events, and I answer by pointing to my early ...

In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States had been mostly a nation of farmers, who lived in the country.

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites for the advancement of surgery began to fall into place. Among these was the need for adequate anesthesia ...

The 19th-century abortion law in the battleground state of Arizona was officially repealed on Saturday. The 1864 law, which was initially passed even before Arizona became a state, was revoked ...

The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field.

Fanciful as they may have seemed to a 19th-century audience ... Want to reinvent yourself as an airship pilot? Go ahead, says steampunk. Want to build a functioning prosthetic arm from car ...

In his rich and expansive new book, Jon Stewart shows that nihilism's beginnings in fact go back much further to the first half of the nineteenth century. He argues that the true origin of modern ...

Limited as chemical knowledge was when the nineteenth century opened, there were, however, certain men at work, who had adopted the quantitative methods of Lavoisier, and who soon made important ...