KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Senate House State Historic Site will host its annual 18th Century Growing Season event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 17. Visitors to the free event will be able to ...
In the 18th century, a man named Thomas Daniels lived on a 40 acre homestead in what is now Waterford, on land he rented from a justice of the peace, Joshua Hempstead. Daniels farmed cattle and pigs, ...
Contents -- Note on transliterations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- City and environment -- Bread and survival -- Luxury and variety: everyday food -- Luxury and variety: everyday drink -- ...
The Isle a la Cache Brigade will bring insight into what life was like in the Illinois Territory during the mid-18th century during its Living History Demonstration. Sponsored by the Forest Preserve ...
1.This 18th century fire alarm that you'd need to hit with a hammer to alert the village of a fire: Related: "Something In My Head Said, 'Don’t Get Up'": 16 Older Adults Reveal The Wildest ...
A mechanical artwork created in 1775 to portray the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius has been brought to life for the first time. A remarkable mechanical artwork first envisioned in 1775 to capture ...
Courtly life in 18th century Versailles is widely remembered as "a world of pure fantasy frolics", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. Yet for all the excess and absolutism associated with the reigns ...
Salem native Beverly Cooper Pierce has published her debut historical novel about the daily lives of Massachusetts women in the 18th century as they navigated the period’s culture of religious ...
On Saturday, the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough put on their annual Revolutionary War Living History Day, better known as “Rev War Day.” At the Orange County Historical Museum, a new exhibit was ...