“We abolished debtors’ prisons in the 19th century and yet lo and behold 140 or so years later, we’re in a society which still sends people to prison because they can’t pay their ...

that he rendered nineteenth-century ... of 19th-century London. Peering through darkness and fog, I float past water wheels, musty back alleys, the stone walls of the Marshalsea debtors’ prison ...

Largely foreign, her best friends and closest loves were a German prince, a Scottish ghillie and an Indian prison clerk. Tennyson ... middle or rentier class who came to the fore in the 19th century ...

Proponents argued that tariffs would shield American workers from the socially deleterious consequences of the industrial revolution that were already observable by the early 19th century in ...

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 ...

My culinary skills are limited. I make no bones about it — yes, I said that. Other than selecting a nice wine, I require supervision. I am competent at manual tasks: opening jars, cans, etc.

who years before had been convicted of being one of the ringleaders in the U.K.’s biggest-ever heist, were sentenced Friday to a collective term of over a century in prison.

here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: – 19th century Opium Wars – In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems that are wholly inappropriate for the 21st century threatens to take America back to the 19th century.

Few expected him to go so far. In a stunning shift in American economic policy, Donald Trump has yanked up tariffs across the board. On April 2nd, speaking from the Rose Garden of the White House ...

were sentenced Friday to a collective term of over a century in prison. Daniel Kelly, 46, and brothers Louis Ahearne, 36, and Stewart Ahearne, 46, were found guilty by a jury last month for ...