Children love the circus, so what better toy than a model circus parade. In the late 19th century, cages of animals were drawn by horses through the main part of town to announce that the circus ...

Premiering at Chicago's Goodman Theater, wispy new jukebox tuner "Turn of the Century" floats along on a thin time-traveling premise and a series of occasionally cute quips.

The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over 100 years, the image of an enslaved youth was erased. This is his story.

“It has never been the case that the majority of American children went to summer camps,” says Leslie Paris, an associate ...

YouthFirst Century is an after school program providing education, job training, and workforce readiness to the youth of Century.

(Addams was a prominent social worker and activist in turn-of-the-century Chicago, and many of the children she worked with and advocated for were immigrants.) ...

THE scientific study of child development did not begin until the twentieth century, which has been called, among other things, the Century of the Child. If it is to live up to this label, we must ...

A look at toys from the exhibit, which surveys the intersection of children and design in the 20th century.

As a result, in Philadelphia around the turn of the century, the labor of children accounted for between 28 percent and 33 percent of the household income of native-born, two-parent families.

In many ways, problems facing America today resemble those facing what we still call “turn-of-the-century” America from the 1890s to the 1910s. Just as employment shifted from farms to ...

Meet the original Broadway cast of The Illusionists- Turn of the Century on Broadway, and find out who was in the Original Cast, what parts they played and more.

A mournful contemplation of what it sees as the unbridgeable gap between the former Soviet Union and the new Russia, "The Turn of the Century" is replete with grave meanings that are delivered in ...