One of these was fashion. During the Romantic era, for example, one could spot a revolutionary from the way his beard was trimmed. In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku ...

Two crumpled sheets of paper containing lists of seemingly odd words and locations—Bismark, omit, leafage, buck, bank Calgary, Cuba, unguard, confute, duck, Fagan—were hidden inside a pocket under the ...

He believed the ‘Gibson Girl’ was the embodiment of the 19th century woman, someone who’s graceful, independent and elegant—starting with the larger-than-life look. In 2019, Vogue ...