Waterloo Bridge Station opened on this day in 1848. 177 years later, it is the largest station in Britain. Eliot Wilson takes ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1848. Washington, D.C.: Tippin and Streeper, 1849, p. 11. Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1878. Washington, D.C.: ...

In his annual report for 1848, Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry writes: "The objects of the Smithsonian Institution are not educational." He observes that the country "already teems with elementary ...