Cambridge UP, 1996. xii + 203 pp. £40 hc. The looming end of the twentieth century may well have originally inspired the rash of recent work on the end of the nineteenth, in the hope that one fin de ...

Now — 10 years after scientists at Harvard confirmed that the 19th-century French book about the destiny of the human soul is bound in human skin — the original binding has been removed.

The 19th-century book was available to anyone who asked for it for any reason until recently, according to the Ivy League school Brian Brant is an Associate Editor, Human Interest at PEOPLE.

"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

I did it and I don’t deny it,” said Laura Fair of killing a California politician. Her crime offers a lens on 19th-century San Francisco.

Using our images from the Internet Archive, Rougeux has transformed the static pages of a 19th-century book into an interactive resource. Users can browse across all four volumes by topic and ...

Harvard University library officials say they have removed human skin from the binding of a 19th-century book in the university’s collection and are exploring “respectful” ways to lay the ...