In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

The Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island is preparing to receive thousands of images and negatives by the iconic artist who defied 19th-century gender norms.

Mario Moore's bold portraits explore the nature of veneration, self-determination, and the continuum of history.

Ada Lovelace was a pioneer of computing and she loved the new technology of photography too. These pictures are now worth ...

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939,” on view at Wrightwood 659, over 300 works of art explore homosexuality.

The Rijksmuseum is presenting a rare 19th-century condom featuring a raunchy print in its new show "Safe Sex?" ...

On her last trip to Gulu, Mbabazi delivered large, framed copies of the portraits to those who posed for them. Mbabazi hopes the photos will be exhibited publicly, to help change how the women are ...

No matter what genre you prefer, summer always offers a veritable literary bounty. This year, Benedict Nguyễn’s “deeply ...

Reeder (Dust Bowl Girls) describes how over the course of the 19th century, women excluded from male-only universities were increasingly able to enter the medical profession via newly established ...

An exhibition currently on display at a museum in Balboa Park centers the critical role women have played in the development and growth of the craft of photography from the mid-19th century to the ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.