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Back in the 19th century, romance novels in Latin America weren’t just about meet-cutes.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Americans of all ages were into collecting Native artifacts and remains for fun.

This image was popularized in 19th-century stage productions, specifically Richard Wagner’s “The Ring Cycle,” an epic, mythologized account of Germanic history.

But 19th century European colonists faced big problems as they tried to control the sprawling African territories they’d claimed, one of which was biting flies.

In the 19th century, Oiwa’s quest for vengeance was one of the most popular kabuki theater performances, renowned for its grisly narrative and groundbreaking special effects.

In the 19th century, gold seduced men and women in a different way, as they hurried to wild frontiers like California and southern Australia for gold rushes.

From ancient farmers manually pollinating crops to everyone’s favorite 19th-century pea-plant matchmaker and beyond.

In the beginning of the 19th century, most people in the western world had a solid theory about our origins: all creatures were formed by a single creator.

So in the 19th century, colonial authorities created a law that criminalized “intercourse against the order of nature”—in other words, anything that went against Christian ideals about gender, sex, and sexuality.

My digging took me—as it often, weirdly, does— to 19th-century Germany.

These borders here are a little straighter because they actually were drawn by British mediators in the 19th century.

If you want to hear more amazing insights like these, uh please come to our live show February 19th at 92nd Street Y at 7:00.

The Link family's story begins in the tiny village of Minong, Wisconsin, where Jack Link's great-grandfather, a German sausage maker, settled in the 19th century.

Why should the strange laws of non-Euclidean geometry, which were originally conceived of as a thought experiment in the 19th century, turn out to be the exact mathematics that Einstein needed for general relativity?