PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. — The dream of the 1890s is alive here. In Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman's Victorian home, there are three high-wheel bicycles and a tricycle, a Perfection kerosene heater, an icebox ...

Victorian society was full of jobs that feel unbelievable today, yet they were once essential parts of daily life. From rat catchers scrambling through alleyways to pure finders collecting bizarre ...

Bio-diversity : metabiographical method -- Styling the self : making Missionary travels -- Death : lamenting Livingstone -- Empire : imperial afterlives -- Nation ...

She parties like it’s 1899. Oregon’s Adelaide Beeman-White is winding back the clock on haute couture by dressing like she stepped out of a time machine from the late 19th century. Instead of the ...

Stepping into the 1897 Poe House in Fayetteville feels like opening a time capsule where Victorian charm comes alive in every corner. Nestled in the city’s picturesque Haymount Historic District, at ...

Victorian mothers regularly dosed their crying babies with opium-containing syrups to help them sleep, workers took laudanum to get through painful shifts, and middle-class women used it to cope with ...