Costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone dug deep into the lives of New York’s famous families: the Astors, the Goelets, the ...

According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was ...

How We Decoded The Hieroglyphs Of Ancient Egypt' In this clip from the History Hit documentary 'The Story of Egyptology', Dr Chris Naunton explores how 18th century scholars worked frantically to ...

The city’s long-standing connection to Black affluence and entrepreneurship is the focus of the latest season of HBO’s The ...

Wedding-cake history involves a lot more than taste tests and good-luck traditions. Here's how this wedding staple started.

The New Orleans Notarial Archives is one of the city's hidden research gems. The archives hold some 40 million pages of ...

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, ...

Julie Hart Beers was among the dozens of women who made their mark in majestic landscape painting despite the obstacles.

I studied the history of the Khoja community for my doctoral work and ... The Khoja were categorized by the British in the early 19th century as “Hindoo Mussalman” because their traditions spanned ...

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated prosecution of boxing's first Black heavyweight champion.

• Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on a 19th-century abortion law Wednesday • The court's decision was split 4-3 • The ruling addresses legal uncertainty that emerged after Roe v. Wade was ...

Wisconsin's top state court ruled on Wednesday that an 1849 state law banning abortion in virtually all cases cannot be enforced, rejecting claims it had been revived after a landmark U.S. Supreme ...