Back in the age when historians favored hard and fast lines between different Eras of world history, 1543 stood as the gold standard boundary between the Old w...
When you headed out into the field as a 19th century ornithologist, you had one of two things in mind as to what constituted your profession: (1) to look for b...
Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up in amusing hats, teac...
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potent...
As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from Sultan at Marrakesh, telling him tales of her adve...
In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...
If you were to ask an ancient Greek how it is determined that a baby is born a boy or a girl, they would have had some interesting and very compelling theories...
Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to soldiers who had been ...
The nineteenth century saw Great Britain expanding vociferously into new markets, extending its influence, for better or worse, into every corner of the globe ...