From New York’s many New Year’s “sports and entertainments”—including football games, an open house at the Young Men’s ...

For more on the 1890s, read Michael Weinreb on mass plays, ... Conference) was born in 1896, and the South, where Sewanee grinded its way into college football lore with its Iron Men of 1899. ...

ANALYSIS — Polarization, demonization, mistrust and fervor: We have seen today's politics before, most notably in the late 19th century.

If you were on a high-wheel bicycle and hit a rock, you’d go tumbling over the handlebars and onto your head. To reduce accidents and injuries, inventors modified the high-wheel bicycle. By the 1890s, ...

The 1890s, that is. That was the punchline of a recent episode of the TV satire Portlandia, ... "When the economy was in a tailspin, unwashed young men roamed the streets looking for work, ...