Genesee Country Village & Museum had a few moments in the spotlight this week in the Ken Burns/PBS documentary, "The American ...

People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our current divisions like the ones that preceded the American Revolution or ...

SOME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America First ...

The bucolic river is famous for reversing its current a few times each day. Now, an ongoing cleanup effort is reversing ...

Sally McKee, professor of history emerita at UC Davis, wrote a book, published in 2017, about a free African American man who was an accomplished composer and conductor. The opera she discovered in ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

Nearly 200 years after the first freight cars carried goods over railroads, the country is in the middle of a new revolution in transportation and commerce fueled by the pandemic — online shopping ...

An international team of researchers have found what triggers degradation in one of the most popular pigments used by ...

Is it light or humidity? Scientists identify the culprits of emerald green degradation in masterpieces An international team ...