Our journey takes a sobering turn as we visit Kingsley Plantation, the oldest standing plantation house in Florida. Located ...

Tucked away on Fort George Island, Kingsley Plantation is a sobering reminder of Florida’s complex past. It’s the oldest ...

The Baroque painter Francisco de Zurbarán is celebrated today as one of the greatest masters of the Spanish Golden Age. His ...

And while bomba goes back to the era of colonial plantation and plena is a more recent development of the early 20th century, both forms have been used for social messaging as well as a way to ...

The Olana Partnership is set to continue its free “Third Thursday” program on Thursday, Jan. 16, inviting visitors to explore ...

maps and photographs—and why we shouldn't take them for granted A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly ...

Image via Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn’s New Year Celebrations Brooklyn had many different ways to celebrate the New Year. Of course, in the late 19th century, your ability to celebrate depended on your ...

“But it’s also unique in British art and allows us to widen our understanding of how people in the 17th century understood issues that are still important today.” The allegorical ...

Yet the prospect of continuing dominance in this 21st-century technology hinges on harnessing a 19th-century one: electricity. That’s where America has a long way to go. The development of ...

As mass production capabilities grew in the 19th century, manufacturers needed to ... including to India's growing retail sector. While various artists contributed to Santa's evolution, it was ...