Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone is born in Blantyre, Scotland. He studied medicine in school with the hope of becoming a medical missionary to China, but the Opium Wars changed his ...

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Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

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It goes without saying that modern medicine would look very different if it hadn’t been for these 15 medical inventions and discoveries of the 1800s.