Both publications are quoted in the book “Pittsylvania’s Nineteenth Century Grist Mills” by late county historian Herman Melton (1991). The origin of the name Galveston, according to local legend, ...

Arguably the most formidable alliance of high-level toy collections to appear in the marketplace in recent years, Bertoia’s ...

Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that ...

Charlotte Alington Pye, who was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, in 1830, gained fame under her pen name of Claribel. She sold ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...

Christie’s has appointed Bonnie Brennan as Chief Executive Officer with current CEO Guillaume Cerutti becoming chairman as well as taking on a new role within Artémis, the holding company of the ...

A partnership between RIT history department, RIT Press, and the Rochester Public Library relaunched the Rochester History ...

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

Around the turn of the 20th century, about 20 black doctors resided in the city. Most of them maintained practices primarily in the South End and Roxbury. Some earned their medical degrees from ...

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The presentation, titled ‘Women and Style in the 19th to early 20th century Malta’, will be delivered by fashion historian Caroline Tonna.