Indeed, immigrants came to America seeking land that they could farm. But throughout the nineteenth century, the population living in cities rose faster than the rural population. As the 1800s ...

In the last half of the 19th century, America underwent a series of changes ... A technological revolution had taken hold in the country's cities, with new factories employing thousands of ...

The City of Light shone like a beacon for many ... However, as this exhibition makes clear, most of the late-19th-century American painters in Paris were conformists, not visionaries.

The spring issue, edited by Christine Ridarsky, Rochester City Historian, and Rebecca Edwards, RIT professor of history, published April 15. A feature article, written by Edwards, highlights the deaf ...