While modern Oval Office seekers unabashedly promote their own leadership capabilities, nearly all 19th-century presidential candidates considered self-aggrandizement activities loathsome.

Presidential history: 19th century ballot box stuffing A person places mail-in ballots at a mail-in ballot drop box at the Clark County Election Department, Oct. 29, 2020, in Las Vegas.

The 19th-century Printing Press Experience VR is free on "Steam," a digital distribution platform, where users can purchase, download, and play video games.

But while most commercial fiction flies off the printing press today as a single volume, many 19th-century novels were published in three separate parts, Jacobs said.

This Dallas-based press has been publishing international books for 12 years. Among its latest releases is this novel from Spanish author Cerdà — his first book to be translated into English — about ...

Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books with leather made from human skin. Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum just discovered a book bound with the skin of notorious killer ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about the afterlife that has been in its collections since the 1930s.

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America ...

The book was written by Moshe Aharon Shatzkes (1825-1899), a famed author, remembered most for his Sefer Hamafteach, being of the first to have applied modern methods of investigation to the ...

The result — scherenschnitte, or scissors cutting in German — enlivens the pages of Ripple’s book, “The Raub Family Country Doctors and Their Medical Flora Remedies in the 19th Century.’’ ...

Books from the Victorian era, such as cloth-bound hardcovers, Christmas annuals, and serialized novels can be found at the exhibition. The curator of the exhibit, Rebecca Baumann, said before the 19th ...