An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City. The ...

Introduction: At home in nineteenth-century America -- The emergence of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal : Excerpt from Henry Lee and Mary Lee, Letters and journals: with other family letters, ...

Series from publisher's Web site. NPM copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies ...

A small painting bought for $10 at a thrift store in Glenside, a small suburban town outside of Philadelphia, has turned out to be a one-of-a-kind treasure representing the height of Black wealth in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our current divisions like the ones that preceded the ...

SOME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America First ...

This exhibition features outstanding nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures from the Museum’s permanent collection. Gifts of major art collections by James Bowdoin III in 1811 and Harriet Sarah ...

In the category of innovations that make us impatient and harried, the smartphone joins the train, the telegraph, and the pulpy novel. Picture, for a moment, Henry David Thoreau. He is at his cabin, ...

Prom season marks the rite of passage that teens have celebrated since the late 19th century – but that one special night wasn't always about the over-the-top 'promposals,' dresses, flowers, ...

The difference between a politician and a statesman,” said James Freeman Clarke, a 19th century American theologian and ...