Beautiful hotels, elegant restaurants, and convenient transportation transformed East Coast beaches into some of America’s favorite places to play.

A fascinating look at the details of luxurious textiles, exacting tailoring techniques, and lush trimmings.

By planting the listed flowers and shrubs, you will recreate for your home the same outdoor living area portrayed in these 19th century garden designs.

The street garments of the well-to-do leisure class Victorian gentleman are costly enough, but there are numerous special garments—chamber garments, so to speak—in which these gentlemen are exceeding curious and lavish.

Be daring, and try these chocolate recipes.

Its story begins in the rainforests of Central and South America where the ancient Maya harvested the precious cacao seed to use as money and made a drink out of the grounds.

An assortment of fashionable children’s shoes from the early 1900s feature the popular styles of the Edwardian period.

Featuring a Victorian finishing school for young girls.