Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

A 1910 watercolor portrait of Belle da Costa Greene by Laura Coombs Hills. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the ...

Gang warfare was not dead even then, though many people were. Just over five years earlier, riots and clashes broke out between the city’s Puerto Rican community and the police and went on for three ...

At the Morgan Library & Museum, an exhibition looks at the museum’s first director, whose remarkable career broke prejudicial ...

Their leader, Henry Berry Lowry, gave an interview while imprisoned in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1889, in which he described his ancestry as a mix of Portuguese and African instead of Indian.

The author said he had read about Sambhaji's torture — "many accounts indicate Aurangzeb did far worse than what was shown in ...

Hussaini, who was named Wednesday as the new Aga Khan, watches with his children the coffin being placed in a hearse during the funeral of Prince Karim Al-Huss ...

Belle Marion Greener became Belle da Costa Greene — the “da Costa” a subtle claim to her Portuguese ancestry. When banking magnate J.P. Morgan sought a librarian in 1905, his nephew Junius ...

Julia Wandel is accused of turning up at the McCann family home, leaving voicemails and sending incessant messages.

Belle Marion Greener became Belle da Costa Greene – the “da Costa” a subtle claim to her Portuguese ancestry.

Julia Wendell, a Polish woman who recently claimed to be Madeleine McCann, has released new DNA test results that contradict ...