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

Antyllus, a Greek physician in 2nd-century Rome, developed aneurysm surgery methods that remained standard practice until the ...

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. To counter the ...

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 ...

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 ...