Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

Brad Holland, an artist whose conceptual work and iconoclastic ways delighted — and often maddened — generations of art ...

Silicon Valley’s congressman says a class of ‘economic royalists’ is lining up behind the vice president.

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The novel, based on Edward Lear’s journal, successfully brings to life the English nonsense poet’s year-long sojourn in India ...

European versions began taking hold in the 19th century thanks in large part to the work of Parisian civil servant Claude-Philibert Barthelot. By 1917, the public restroom staple was culturally ...

The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will commemorate the 221st anniversary of the start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ...

It was here, in the middle of the nineteenth century, that the Bavarian civil servant and folklorist Franz Xaver von Schönwerth recorded a local fairy tale concerning the origins of snow’s pure ...