The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, "I Know Why ...

Built in the 18th century, badly damaged during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)—before being ... family pictures and masterpieces of European art that Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, the third ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, the 15th-to-16th-century sculptor, painter and draftsman who has endured as one of the most famous artists ... during the Spanish Civil War. Conservators took 19 years ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […] ...

The show runs at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art through June 30 ... for example, and Civil War battle sites. (A show of Williams’s work, “Their Kindred ...

Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...

It may be a lazy critic cliché to write that an artist’s life was itself a work of art, but we are dealing ... a lack on the level of a book about the Civil War that barely mentions Lincoln.

These historical trade arteries connect cities and castles, palaces and pagodas and they provide easy transport routes ...

Bronze sculptures commemorating the Chisolm Trail – a popular route for cattle drives following the Civil War – can be found ...