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 ...

"Scouts watching an enemy encampment apparently wore simple peasant or merchant clothing," said Balázs ... a ninja who lived ...

Rembrandt's mistress Geertje, traditionally portrayed as a harpy, and grasping crone is stylishly rehabilitated in this ...

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 ...

Long before the red flag waved from factory gates and trade union halls, 1 May was a day of greenwood misrule. In medieval ...

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

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, ...