The Great Financial Panic of 1873 - Closing the door of the Stock Exchange on its members, Saturday, Sept. 20th. Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the ...

In early March 1873, shortly after his namesake censorship bill was signed into federal law, Anthony Comstock was commissioned a special agent of the U.S. Post Office. He’d aspired to this ...

Introduced to the public as part of Winchester’s elaborate display at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, the ...

THE second volume of the Report on the Physics and Chemistry of the Challenger Expedition has been published, and contains matter of very great interest.

In 1873, Canada was engulfed in an economic depression, which caused poverty and suffering throughout the country. Alexander Mackenzie was prime minister during the darkest years of the depression ...