In 1895, colleges and universities in the United States standardized the style and color of academic dress, leading to the black gowns that graduating students at CU Boulder still wear today. If ...

From a mourning dress to a party dress, one simple piece of clothing can pull together a look for almost any occasion.

Now streaming on Netflix. According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were ...

Victorian dress was rife with symbolism and evolved around rigid codes of propriety and caste. Tightly pulled corsets and top ...

It was Queen Victoria's German-born husband Prince Albert who first introduced Christmas trees to England. In 1841 he put one up in Windsor Palace, word got around and the custom filtered down ...

On the roof of a London jail in 1849, a married couple charged with murder was hanged in front of a vast crowd. The event garnered a crowd believed to be the largest ever assembled for a public ...

A disease prominent during the Victorian era has become the world's 'top infectious disease killer', world health agencies have said. More than eight million people were diagnosed with ...

The name "blind tiger" is a Prohibition-era slang term for an illegal speakeasy or place where liquor was sold. "When we were first made aware of this property, we were in awe of its history," Rob ...

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Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and ...