As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

From their first encounters with Europeans in 1642 to the Musket Wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Māori, the ...

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was her father’s prodigy, a composer’s wife and a musician in her own right. Her story is still ...

For the rest of this year, the historical society is presenting an exhibition titled, "Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public ...

Several years ago, two African American women, Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills, decided to do some research on the history of ...

Since Dobbs, the rhetoric around personhood has become much more extreme—for example, so-called abortion abolitionists ...

But behind the ethereal sound of the castrato singers lay an unspeakable truth. To preserve the high, angelic tone of boyhood, thousands of young boys were castrated.

Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

In the 1860s, four different foundling asylums opened in New York City to care for abandoned children. Among them was the ...

Women and Whaling in Hudson's historic house tour and panel discussion on May 31 will explore how women lived, adapted, ...