And every year on January nineteenth -- Poe's birthday -- people watch for a man dressed in black to appear.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

For example, a toy from the nineteenth century has two forms, a man in western clothing and a Chinese man.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Dancers from Old Lore Theater performed the poem "Annabel Lee" by the nineteenth century American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

In the early nineteenth century steamboats came from the city of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania and from the nearby state of Delaware.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Nineteenth century workers would probably be surprised to know that their pants would one day become a fashion object.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Historians say she was the strongest influence on the education of American young people during the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States was not concerned much with events in other countries.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Experts say the book explored different social subjects that were especially meaningful to English readers in the late nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Many of these late nineteenth century houses would not have been built had it not been for a major tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Jane Ziegelman says from the nineteenth century on, immigrants would take difficult jobs that non-immigrants would not do.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

Through her lifelong work for education she became one of the most famous women in nineteenth century America.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

For the most part, the Louvre museum's collection does not extend past works made in the mid-nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

By the end of the nineteenth century, he was developing some exciting new ideas about the human mind.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.26