But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

This stone tomb on Portland, with a Jolly Roger-style skull and crossbones on the end, is rumoured to be a pirate's grave ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh ...

Two new art exhibits Knights in Armor the Pavia Tapestries and Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka now open at Museum of Fine ...

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

Throngs of ordinary faithful made their way slowly to the 16th-century basilica's main altar, where Francis' simple wooden casket was perched.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) The portrayal of ...

As menswear evolved it began to incorporate a variety of pockets, evident in the European three-piece suits developed from Persian kaftans by the late 17th-century, she noted. Carlson found that ...

Aaron Taylor-Johnson has won his battle with the local council after excavating a lake at his 16th century farmhouse, and has even won praise for it 'attracting birds'. The Brit actor and his ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...