In the early 20th century, J. C. Leyendecker rose to prominence as an illustrator whose work was seen everywhere from soap advertisements to the cover of the "Saturday Evening Post." His drawings ...

Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.

Yet, this iconic periodical we know best from the early and mid-20 th century is one of the oldest magazines in the United States. The magazine, which has deep Philadelphia roots, published its ...

Once inside, archaeologists discovered that the room was likely a casemate—a fortified space for storing and testing weapons.

In the 21st century, The New Yorker has grown beyond just a print magazine to include a website, a radio show, a festival, podcasts and an Oscar-winning video department.

Duran Duran’s Greatest compilation debuts at No. 5 on the U.K.’s Official Vinyl Albums chart and No. 9 on the Official Albums ...

In the very early years of the twentieth century, the New York-born painter Emily Noyes Vanderpoel published an intriguing book on color: Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of ...

The central hall of Raffaele Fabrizio’s 17th-century palazzo in Valmorea, Italy, a village near Lake Como, features trompe l’oeil windows and a vaulted ceiling with faux coffered panels.

THE BASICS: With guest mezzo-soprano Susan Platts, JoAnn Falletta conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in her specialty, four early 20 th century works, three by Stravinsky and one by Ravel ...

Over the last century of glorious, tragic, turbulent and innovative human endeavour, the cover of the New Yorker magazine has used only the illustrated image to communicate talking points of ...

AAA signs pointed the way in Seattle, beginning in 1906. Thousands of signs in Western Washington helped with directions and distances, and even warned of speed traps.

Archaeologists discovered a fourth-century Christian church in Armenia, considered the country’s oldest. Armenia is believed to be the first Christian state in the world after King Tiridates III ...