Superstitions held sway over the imaginations of many, serving as comforting guides or ominous warnings. From rural farmlands ...

And then she takes videos of this early 1800s domestic life and posts them on YouTube. She and her husband, Ron, have more than 200 videos of early American cooking, each about 15 minutes long ...

Cairncross' memories, written by hand in a red and white cloth-covered book, "comprise one of the most interesting stories ever compiled of life on the rivers and lakes and canals of America ...

Deadly diseases infiltrated North America faster than Europeans ... But the steepest increase in life expectancy occurred from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. Even some dramatically successful ...

This photo captures America at this time.” The Jacob Strader steamboat in Cincinnati in about 1853. Capturing Life includes fascinating ... it was 12-feet high and 1,800-feet long.

contemplates the spreading of the arts of civilized life?" Clay said in his opening address. Colonization, the state-sponsored emigration and resettlement of freed Black Americans outside America ...