For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

Archivists say that if you have Scottish ancestors there is a “very good chance” one of them is mentioned in the tax rolls.

Lawyers for the Trump administration and immigrants are sparring in court over whether President Donald Trump can use an 18th ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early modern England.

Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

Toward the end of the 18th century, servants were so numerous and idle in upper-class houses that they became a grievous social problem.

“The Servant of Two Masters,” by Carlo Goldoni, Italy’s most prolific playwright in the 18th century. It is but one of 150 works that defined the commedia dell’arte tradition.