Hans Nielsen Hauge championed gender equality in 1800s Norway, empowering women as lay preachers and inspiring future feminist progress.

A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg exhibition, “Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress,” showcases more than 100 pieces of decorative clothing, as well as photographs and paintings, and books on ...

There is often little room for modern or student-produced art. The Houses “have a particular architecture,” Luise Mörke says, ...

One such story is embodied in an anonymous 1850s daguerreotype (an image created on silver-coated copper plate) of a young man holding a chicken − a man for whom a painted portrait was probably ...

Despite the disappearance of their original, practical purpose — which was on display in London in the 19th century, at the Great Exhibition of the Products of the Industry of All Nations — these ...

Around the turn of the 20th century, about 20 black doctors resided in the city. Most of them maintained practices primarily in the South End and Roxbury. Some earned their medical degrees from ...

Trump has about 20 portraits in the Oval Office. They include Andrew Jackson, his initial, unusual 19th-century presidential fixation. Jackson, a Democrat considered the first populist president ...

The Texas A&M men’s basketball team finished the season ranked 19th in the Associated Press’ final Top 25 of the 2024-25 season, which was released Tuesday. The Aggies were ranked in the top ...

Photo: Paul J. RICHARDS / AFP/File In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, ...

In this telling, high tariffs fueled America’s nineteenth-century industrial rise. Tariff-supporters like Oren Cass have argued that the United States “transformed from colonial backwater to continent ...

Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...