Nettie Jones made a splash in 1984 with her shockingly erotic novel “Fish Tales,” then fell into obscurity. A new edition has ...

Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is the only independent source to attest to the existence and fate of Jesus, John the ...

Casanova had a modest background but gained entry into the upper class through his quick wit and appetite for knowledgeImage: Fine Art Images/picture alliance ... He brooded over the manuscript for up ...

Christopher Furlong//Getty Images The grave of William Shakespeare in Holy Trinity ... by those who believe in Shakespeare’s ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

A new book from late author Richard Parker brims with El Paso pride, teasing out the small stuff that makes the city unique.

When I started to read , I thought there was little that I didn’t know about Anne and her circumstances. I had read her world ...

Contemporary artists are reclaiming picture frames and transforming them into sites of storytelling, history, and embodied ...

The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art helped fan the flames ...

I had been looking forward to the National Gallery's exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 for several ...

This valuable study combines real-time keypoint tracking with transdermal activation of sensory neurons to investigate sensory neuron recruitment in freely moving mice, and builds on the authors' ...

The Limbourg brothers, Herman, Paul, and Jean, born between 1385 and 1388, were Dutch painters from Nijmegen, but they were ...