When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them ...

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

Washington Black is about an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation around 200 years ago, but one of its stars ...

A Mount Vernon city council hopeful says in a new lawsuit that the voter rolls are filled with errors — but election ...

The boy “suddenly recovered" after a physician invoked a 19th century Spanish priest in prayer, church officials announced.

The church at 80 South Market St. dates back to the 19th century. The San Jose cathedral is designated as California Historic ...

An unknown 19th-century portrait of UMD medical school founder has been discovered in a former Baltimore seafood restaurant’s closet.

Pope Leo XIV has declared the first miracle of his papacy, referencing the birth of a baby boy in Rhode Island in 2007. The ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery. Astronomers ...

Alleging that Latter-day Saints are neither white nor Christian alleviates some of the tension, and possibly some of the ...

Amid the excavation of part of the city's first cemetery, an archaeology firm has found more than 1,100 graves filled with ...

The exhibition looks at the 30 years following that landmark event for the nation through the lens of food." ...