It may seem like a brave choice to launch a company making old-fashioned mechanical watches—when many wear new-fangled ...

A historical marker at Coon Rapids' Al Flynn Park serves as a reminder of the town's industrial past, when the discovery of ...

CLAIBORNE PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS)—A Claiborne Parish family has been handing down a work of art for generations, and it’s so important to them that in 2012, one of the family members ran into ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

A mid-century Pasadena home built on the former site of the storied Sierra Madre Villa is on the market for $4.3 million. Mature oak trees surround the 3,877-square-foot wood-and-glass house ...

These three companies were also opium importers and manufacturers. The Canadian government received substantial revenues from the opium trade which, during the 1870s, was British Columbia's third ...

From the 1870s until World War I, the United Kingdom served as the leading financial and banking center of the world, while gold ruled as the monetary standard of all the major trading countries. Each ...

For John Warren, it all started with pocket watches made by the Cornell Watch Company on Chicago's South Side in the 1870s. "The original Cornell Watch Company—they made roughly 18,000 watches ...

For John Warren, it all started with pocket watches made by the Cornell Watch Company on Chicago’s South Side in the 1870s. “The original Cornell Watch Company—they made roughly 18,000 watch ...