Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

HBO's The Gilded Age is fiction, but informed deeply by history, with several characters that are based on real people ...

Acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered 19th-century self-portrait, Van Gogh’s ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’ and a painting by a contemporary Tanzanian artist ...

Van Horn also knows they’re not the only congregation lucky enough to gather in a 19th-century structure where the ceilings are high and floorboards are worn. With that, she wonders what their ...

Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look into the region’s maritime trade history.