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

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.

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Inside Jane Austen's House With Lucy Worsley Who was the real Jane Austen? Lucy Worsley and Dan Snow head inside her former ...

Drag balls in the 19th century, the Black Pearl Awards and, of course, the High Heel Race. Why might Washington, a famously ...

Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...

This brief historical sketch brings us to how the American and Israeli militaries of today have adopted a ...

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

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.

After more than a century and a half, 19 souls taken from 19th-century New Orleans are finally coming home, honored by a city determined to preserve their dignity.

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