In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

A Norton Museum of Art exhibition explores the peculiar practices of 19 th -century photography studios in capturing ...

Before Hemingway swaggered through Paris or Fitzgerald gilded the Jazz Age, women ruled American letters. In the mid-19th ...

Pope Leo XIV has canonized José Gregorio Hernández, Venezuela's 'doctor of the poor,' the nation's first saint. Papua New ...

Kent Monkman’s paintings reference iconic European, Canadian and American paintings to provide a scathing commentary on the ...

Slavery was abolished in the United Kingdom in 1807 and across the British Empire by the Slavery Act of 1833, but continued in the USA until 1865.

For those looking for more TV hows delivering period drama like The Gilded Age, you can't go wrong with this assembly of ...

Catch a local art exhibition or show at the community arts center, stay in a restored 19th-century furniture factory, or hike ...

One of the most important military arms ever made, the French "Charleville" musket saw use in the American Revolution and ...

To say that my church was an ideological microcosm of the larger nation is a bold and audacious statement and requires a bit ...

In taking the name Leo XIV, the first American pope signaled a desire to imitate his much-beloved 19th-century predecessor ...

A daring daylight robbery at the Louvre Museum shocks the world as thieves make off with priceless royal jewellery. Learn ...