Ballantine House has been reimagined to be more inclusive, with a temporary exhibit on 19th- century Black women.

Rabinbach joined Princeton’s faculty in 1996 and transferred to emeritus status in 2019. He served as director of the ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

Oxford University’s Oriel College has announced plans to host an exhibition “contextualising” the controversial 19th-century ...

Scholar Kathryn Vaggalis has untangled the complex racial identity of Greek immigrants to America in her research of Greek "picture brides." ...

In Cairo’s famous Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish landmarks, a treasure trove of history lay ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...