Forgotten about for years in a Connecticut barn, a painting from 17th century Dutch painter Frans Post fetched more than $7 million in a Sotheby's auction last month. "View of Olinda, Brazil, with the ...

With no portraits of Rhode Island theologian Roger Williams to go by, sculptor based image on the Splendid Splinter ...

Former United States President William Howard Taft attended a dedication ceremony on June 9, 1915, to celebrate the house ...

He began his second term by brandishing American hard power, threatening Denmark over the control of Greenland, and ...

For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. What lessons for modern living did they learn? The BBC series Tales from the Green Valley follows ...

In September 1670, Apache warriors launched a fierce attack on Las Humanas, the Pueblo settlement at Gran Quivira. They ...

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

Tomatoes were reviled for centuries—so how did we come to embrace them? This small New Jersey town claims to have played a ...

These were ecclesiastical tribunals that thrived in the early 17th century, tasked with enforcing Christian moral conduct and turning ordinary people into judges. They earned the name ‘bawdy courts’ ...

Avocado farmers face multiple challenges: occasional drought, irregular crop yields because of extreme weather and cheap imports. VALLEY CENTER, Calif. — Norman Kachuck stood on a loamy ridge ...

Editor’s note: The Athletic is marking 2025 by naming an MLB All-Quarter Century Team, selected by Jayson Stark. We invited readers to take our survey and make their picks for the best players ...