Henry Cole, the founding director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK sent the first Christmas card in 1843.

Across the world, the 19th century was a time of great change ... "The threat situation... 13 incredible inventions that were stolen from their creators Many of the world's most important and ...

I’ve long been fascinated and confused by Nashville’s original ice cream empresario (empresaria?), Sarah Estell. A free woman ...

One of the most popular theories about the creation of candy canes is far more interesting than an average confectioner ...

Yet the 19th century also produced new holiday customs ... While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card ...

Inventions are always brought out that change human life drastically these days, sometimes resulting in changing lifestyle and their way of thinking. In the 20th century, many movements gave humankind ...

While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first ...

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized.

Nineteenth-century literature and culture have proved a rich field for interdisciplinary studies. Since 1994, books in this series have tracked the intersections and tensions between Victorian ...