In the early years of the 20th century, four painters left behind a drab grey Presbyterian Scotland for the exciting ...

Library of Congress / Homer Rodeheaver was a gospel music pioneer and early 20th century celebrity who made multiple ...

How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too.

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

Author Charu Gupta’s fine-grained studies of lesser-known vernacular intellectuals and practitioners illuminate a whole range ...

"Phillips-Cunningham's book is a tremendous achievement. Well-written, exhaustively researched, and provocatively framed, it will recast historical understandings of the history of US education, the ...

A study combining remote sensing and administrative data finds that since the mid-20th century, large, growing cities have ...

A historic home tied to a successful Black entrepreneur of the early 20th century will soon be restored, thanks to a state ...

You might assume it’s the name for a wedding in the city of Boston. In fact, it's an important facet of queer history.

Maplewood, a suburb of St. Paul, became an enclave for Black families despite decades of racist real estate practices in Minnesota.

Pearl, a prequel set in the early 20th century, stands out as a distinct and effective installment in the trilogy. Pearl's ...