Sending cards for Valentine’s Day became very popular in 19th century England, so much so that in 1840, they gave postmen a special stipend for refreshments to keep their energy up during the long ...

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

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

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

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

Back home in Washington, D.C., The New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka and his wife, Jess, cook “constantly and elaborately,” he says. (Their home is conveniently sandwiched between ...

The Maison de Chateaubriand invites you to discover one of the first novels of Romantic literature, based on the impossible ...

Across New England, the time-honoured charms of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are getting a new lease of life.

Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds' by Louis Vuitton and its creative director, Francesca Amfitheatrof, is the second in a series ...

A Luxembourg museum has scooped three portraits by 18th century painter Monique Daniche, featuring the elite of Strasbourg ...

If art is truly in the eye of the beholder, then there’s a wealth of 19th century paintings and sculptures to behold at the ...

Journey back in time to April 15, 1874 in Paris, when Impressionist painters began creating their groundbreaking work.