Explore the beauty and artistry of 19th-century ballet with performances by renowned dancers. A glimpse into ballet's golden ...

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

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 ...

just before the emerging discipline became widespread, and using photos to his advantage. Harold Holzer, author of The Lincoln Image, argues that "Lincoln sensed that flattering depictions could ...

To this end, they increasingly argue that 19th-century America’s extraordinary economic success was fueled by high tariffs. In an essay for the Economist, former U.S. Trade Representative Robert ...

WASHINGTON — A 19th century “anti-vice” law is at the center of a new court ruling that threatens access to the leading abortion drug in the U.S. Dormant for a half-century, the Comstock ...

The androids’ hardware and software can generate comedy or tragedy. But either way, these 19th-century automatons on 21st-century stages reaffirm that the uncanny valley stretches centuries into ...

by the mid-19th century laissez-faire became the central tenet to what was then a burgeoning discipline: economics. And Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) became its preferred text. Read More ...