The group plans to rebuild of the Skipwith-Roper cottage, the 18th century home of Jackson Ward's first black homeowner.

There is a common misconception about the music Ludwig van Beethoven wrote during the so-called “early period” of his career in the 1790s. To wit that, because he spent those years studying with Franz ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

However, during Captain Jonathan Carver's visit to the Naudowessie (Dakota) and other Native American tribes in the 1790s, he ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

Congress, the Supreme Court, the central bank, the President’s House — all national institutions that graced Philadelphia when it was the nation’s capital in the 1790s — left long ago for Washington, ...

The design pays homage to the market structure that stood on the site in the 1790s. “These infrastructure improvements enable activations and programming that are part of a larger commitment to ...