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

Fabric of a Nation opens on June 27 and continues through October 12 in Nashville. Find more and plan your visit on the ...

From sweetgrass baskets to Civil War relics and handmade quilts, Georgia’s vintage scene offers timeless pieces steeped in ...

In a state known for mouse ears and beach chairs, Micanopy (pronounced mick-ah-NO-pee, and yes, it’s fun to say) offers something refreshingly different – a genuine slice of old Florida charm that ...

Travel is all about the experience. And with a fast-paced world zipping all around us, sometimes it’s nice to just catch our ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

A grant from the Illinois State Historic Records Advisory Board enabled the digitization of two Civil War-era diaries now available for online research on CARLI Digital Collections.

They’re now trying to identify human remains from the 19th century, a rare endeavor that will include searching for living descendants and requesting swabs of DNA.

After the war ended, the fort was returned to the U.S., and as the fur trade declined throughout the 19th century, tourism began to pick up on the island and has thrived since.

In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the end of the month, the collector and dealer Adam Lindemann—head of the steering committee ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump wants to take America back to what he considers the good old days: the 1800s. He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K ...