The Supreme Court recently ruled that maternity leave is a constitutional right, even in the case of a third child. But how ...

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.

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

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

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Marion Harland and Christine Herrick were a mother-daughter duo. Marion Harland was actually a very famous writer in the late ...

They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in ...

The wreck captures a tragic moment in maritime history during the 19th century Australian gold rushes. The 800-ton sailing ship was beginning its journey back to the Netherlands in June 1857 when ...

A major sewage tunnel in Northwest Washington that dates to the 1890s has a 200-foot-long crack and is at risk of collapsing and polluting Rock Creek, said D.C. Water officials. They are planning ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and ...

Love a challenge? Name the two homes credited with being built by a U.S. president. We’ll spare you the struggle. Along with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, there’s the stately Tudor Revival ...