A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history ...

The eighth president had a commode fit for a commander-in-chief at Lindenwald, his home in Kinderhook, New York.

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A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United ...

In 3641 BC, according to the calculations of the Mayans, the world was created. In AD 60 (traditional date), the Apostle Paul was shipwrecked at Malta. In 1763, Canada passed from French control into ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

When suffragette Susan B. Anthony boarded the passenger car of the Union Pacific Railroad in Ogden, Utah, in late December ...

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

A decade back, a prominent art gallery in Delhi presented an unusual show. It focussed on one of India’s most famous political artists, Chittaprosad Bhattachary ...

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