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

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

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

S OME 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 ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City.

View AMERICAN SCHOOL (19TH/20TH CENTURY) PORTRAIT OF A DOG (19th Century 20th Century) By American School, 20th Century; oil on canvas; 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 sight, 19 3/4 x 17 3/4; . Access more artwork ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If 19th-century “upper crust” Americans thought that aping British aristocracy was the height of sophistication, how is it that the American style of eating (swapping the ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Lafayette pioneer community offered its small African American population unskilled work as cooks, whitewashers and laborers. Enterprising individuals, however, thwarted ...

Fishman: On the show today, we’re talking about an obscure 19th-century obscenity law. It’s given rise to the recent court rulings that attempt to restrict access to the abortion pill ...