Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

Before there were DMs or selfies, there were watercolour self-portraits, and an American artist boldly used one to send a ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

A nearly 200-year-old landmarked church on Manhattan's Lower East Side will be restored and redeveloped to include an ...

Cates General Store, part of the historic Glenn Springs community that once brought travelers to its Spartanburg County ...

Amid the excavation of part of the city's first cemetery, an archaeology firm has found more than 1,100 graves filled with 19th century artifacts.

Elie Saab has unveiled his latest fall haute couture collection in Paris, staying true to his signature romantic style ...

Arabbing, the centuries-old Baltimore tradition of selling items out of a horse-drawn wagon, persists today despite being on ...

A 19th Century workhouse, which has been described as a "bit of a blot", is being sold. The former Hexham Workhouse on ...