Carl Størmer is a renowned mathematician and astrophysicist, but he also was one of the world's first street photographers.

British social historian Goodman reveals what life was like in the Victorian era in a manner most readers have likely never encountered before: by personally subscribing to Victorian mores and way of ...

Remember that old saying about not knowing a person until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes? Author Ruth Goodman has done that and then some. She’s walked in the shoes, corsets, dresses and nightgowns ...

The crowning jewel of Cape May is the Emlen Physick Estate. This Victorian mansion is more than just gorgeous, ornate and historical -- it started a movement. When it was nearly demolished in the late ...

Sarah Chrisman would have us believe that life in Victorian times was better. Whose, life, exactly? Not women's. (Strohmeyer & Wyman/ Library of Congress, flickr) A couple years ago, my family and I ...

Sarah A. Chrisman has never had a cell phone or a driver’s license. She uses an ice box instead of a refrigerator, bakes her own bread, sews all of her own clothes by hand and washes them with either ...

There are a few kinds of architecture you’d expect to find in the French Quarter. You’d expect Creole cottages. You might expect colonial-era French architecture. You might even come across a Greek ...

It is hardly news to say that, in his famous opening lines for A Tale of Two Cities – “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – Charles Dickens was remarkably prescient about how his ...

The dream of the 1890s is alive in Port Townsend. In Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman’s Victorian home, there are three high-wheel bicycles and a tricycle, a Perfection kerosene heater, an icebox, numerous ...