In 1877, journalist Adolphe Smith and photographer John Thomson co-published a book about London 's street life. The rarely seen, Victorian-era images are like something out of a Charles Dickens ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread ... The Meiji period, which lasted for the life of the Meiji emperor, until 1912, was a period of enormous change in all aspects ...

Fearing starvation, prairie natives agreed to sign treaties with the white man during the 1870s. Many gave up a nomadic way of the life and agreed to settle on reserves. (As portrayed in Canada ...