For millennia, historian Roger Ekirch explains in his book At Day’s Close: A History Of Nighttime, humans slept in two phases ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

Scott Fitzgerald finished a draft of his third novel, “The Great Gatsby,” in a rental home in Saint-Raphaël. By the time Gabrielle Chanel arrived in 1928 — the Parisian couturier, then 45 and known as ...

At the heart of this show are 14 of the 26 portraits Van Gogh made of Joseph Roulin and his family, along with works by ...

As the museum celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is undergoing an exterior renovation project to make it more inviting for ...

While once a staple of peasant farms, the breed eventually gained favor with ... The Leonberger, a majestic giant breed from Leonberg, Germany, was bred in the 17th century to resemble the lion on the ...

Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.

In 1694, a lovelorn inquirer wrote to The Athenian Mercury, a periodical published by the English printer John Dunton, with a ...

all in an attempt to uncover more about the people and medicine of 17th-century Milan. “The study of their remains aims to give back a general identity and a story to each of these persons,” the team ...

Four Chautauqua County residents will lead the New York Society Colonial Dames XVII Century. They are all members of the ...