More than 250 newly digitized architectural drawings reveal how UVA rose from the ashes after the 1895 Rotunda fire.

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

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

The word “Luddite” has become shorthand for technophobe, but the original rebels of the Industrial Revolution were actually ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.