When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

The striking headgear sported by members of the Ottoman court in the 15th century provoked fashionable Westerners to don ...

Artist Pace Taylor’s studio is surrounded by artifacts of Portland’s early history. It’s on the second floor of an early 20th ...

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

Ross and Graham explained that Cole, then an emerging jazz artist, asked Troup to finish the tune for an upcoming recording ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself). The British historian ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, a generation of convention-defying American women left home behind to reinvent themselves in France. They painted and performed, published and protested, ...

Once household names, Brooklyn's candy makers numbered nearly 100 around the turn of the 20th century, and today many of their buildings still stand.

William Kentridge, the renowned South African artist, began to film himself in his studio during the coronavirus pandemic ...

Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...

A Poor Man's Roast Beef or Fresh Boston Fried Cod each cost $1.25; a New England Boiled Dinner $3.50; Prime Rib with ...

A century before LaCroix or Spindrift were refrigerator staples, factories in New York City were carbonating gallons and ...