There are 20 house museums and landmarks in Historic Germantown including Cliveden, the site of the Revolutionary War’s ...

There’s no doubt that Taylor Swift loves a theme. Her new album The Tortured Poets Department embraces a moody, vintage aesthetic that, of course, drops hints about her emotional state. At one ...

A mother makes a button from the hair of her dead infant. She sews it onto the mourning dress she will wear for the next six months. She poses for the camera, with her baby, holding him so that ...

In conjunction with the Halloween and Dia de los Muertos holidays, the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka has been displaying an exhibit of Victorian/Edwardian mourning dresses. These two eras ran ...

Vancouver artist Karin Jones has made a powerful installation about black history at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. It’s a braided black Victorian mourning dress made from artificial hair ...

Black has long been associated with grief, but dress codes have shifted over the eras, including elaborate rules for Victorian-era mourners that lasted for years at a time.

Overland Trail Museum’s History Café took a dark turn this month, just in time for Halloween, with a focus on “Victorian Mourning and Spiritualism.” The Victorian era, which stretched from ...

She died 40 years later, in 1901, still in mourning, though she did relax the attitude somewhat in 1887 for the 50th anniversary of her reign. Especially in the 1860s and 1870s there was a tendency ...

Overland Trail Museum’s History Café took a dark turn this month, just in time for Halloween, with a focus on “Victorian Mourning and Spiritualism.” The Victorian era, which stretched from ...