Plus, why keep these codes hidden in this dress? It’s got researchers digging deeper into possible links with 19th-century American secret services. This whole story is a reminder that ordinary ...

The dress was a silk bustle dress from the 1880s, according to NOAA, and it was found by Sara Rivers Cofield in an antique mall in Maine in 2013. Upon closer inspection, Rivers Cofield discovered ...

On May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers luminaries from the spheres of art, business, politics, sports, and entertainment ...

The wife of a successful Boston clothing merchant, Lawson wears a stylish dress ... s American Folk Art Museum, where an exhibition of art representing Black subjects from the 17th to 19th ...

According to her obituary, the fire had started when “a match or piece of lighted paper caught her dress ... This hat was made in the 19th century, and tests confirmed it still contains ...

An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century (160 photographs of him survive, compared to 130 of Abraham Lincoln). The documentary is filled with memorable moments. Narrated by ...

To me he is more than just the greatest painter of the 19th century; he’s the supreme model ... lavished attention on her brown skin and pink dress, and painted her with lips open, as if speaking.