“Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the first time ever—William J. Wilson's idea.

The main doors for a historic cathedral in downtown San Jose could gain a more traditional look.

The 19th century is a terrible guide to modern statecraft A world carved up between Presidents Trump, Xi and Putin would be unstable and unsafe ...

At Mar Hall hotel, a $27 million renovation bucks the beige tones of yore, bringing in a riot of color that nods to the building’s Victorian past.

SAN JOSE — The main doors of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph in downtown San Jose could gain a more traditional look if a proposal on file with city planners gains final approval. The church at ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku Klux Klan.

Glenview, a 19th-century seasonal home built for millionaire banker John Bond Trevor and his family, has been painstakingly restored by the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York.

Amid the excavation of part of the city's first cemetery, an archaeology firm has found more than 1,100 graves filled with 19th century artifacts.

The Scopes Monkey Trial and the evolution of fundamentalism A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.

For the first time in more than 100 years, Parisians and tourists alike took a dive into the Seine on Saturday as three new swimming sites opened to the public. The long-forbidden waters are now ...

A Mount Vernon city council hopeful says in a new lawsuit that the voter rolls are filled with errors -- but election officials refused to clean up the records.