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Before climate warnings and collapse documentaries, one 19th-century artist painted the entire rise and fall of civilisation on five haunting canvases. Step inside Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire, a visual prophecy where glory turns to ash and nature always has the last word.

A tribute to Nellie Bly’s historic race around the world in 1889–1890. This collage blends portraits, newspaper clippings, and pop-art...

Jacob Riis, “Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement–‘Five Cents a Spot'” In 1890, a book titled How the Other Half Lives  introduced...