A violin handcrafted in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian luthier, has been sold for $11.25 million by Boston’s ...

The Monroe family, 19th century Black California pioneers, rose from slavery to become landowners in Coloma, California.

During the height of the oyster craze in New York in the 1800s, everyone was eating them at oyster saloons, oyster stalls, and at home. This recipe from 1880 is one of the many, many ways that people ...

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Holland Land Office Museum will open its latest exhibit, “A Dressmakers Work: Fashioning the 19th-Century." The public is invited to step back into ...

The legacies of Black women continue to be celebrated in named and traditional memorials, by generations of memorializers and ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

What if “old wine in new bottles” is actually the secret to game-­changing innovation? The authors explore what they call ...

In 1775, 250 years ago, William Withering, a physician practising in Birmingham, learnt of a folk remedy for dropsy involving the use of digitalis from purple foxgloves. He started to use it in his ...

Ballyfin Demesne has been added to the UK and Ireland edition of the Michelin Guide. The Michelin guide is published online ...

The former Barclays Bank building in the centre of Beccles, Suffolk, has received the green light to become seven residential flats.

Architecture firm Studio LBA will refurbish and create a new home for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society in a nineteenth ...

Two new papers, published in the journal Nature, by scientists from Russia and Ukraine, further solidify this claim about the origin of the Indo-European family of languages that include Sanskrit, ...