Charles Frederick Worth is the subject of a retrospective at the Petit Palais museum, the first of its kind in France.

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were built.

We were far from the first to anonymously seek romantic prescriptions from strangers. In 1694, a lovelorn inquirer wrote to ...

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Learn about scientist and Polaroid inventor Edwin Land, who is featured in a new documentary from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, Mr.

Vocals on the album were handled by late guitarist Michael Karoli and keyboard player Irmin Schmidt. The latter, now 87, and ...

An exhaustive guide to all the names worth your time, from age-old Swiss institutions to homegrown American upstarts.

In "So Very Small," author Thomas Levenson recounts the complex history of how humans came to discover germs and the ...

Novelist Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois) presents a collection of incisive essays exploring “the crossroads”: “a location of difficulty and possibility, a boundary Continue ...

Ray becomes the first Black female lawyer in American history. Born in New York City to a journalist father and a politically ...

Main Street Theater (MST) is celebrating 50 years of engaging theater for curious and thoughtful audiences of all ages. 2025-2026 marks the 50th Season for Main Street Theater and will include seven ...