The Sedgwick Theater’s new production tackles dwarfism and Quakers’ uncomfortable connection to slavery in the 19th century.

The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

A man in the boat seems to wave his rifle defiantly at the animals, a gesture that to a modern viewer would appear to predict their coming slaughter. For 19th-century Americans, water represented ...

Schaeffer Collection Young Man with Rooster (Credit ... Promised Gift of Jennifer and Philip Maritz) For the 19th-Century US, the making of these images was a spectacle in itself.

Millions of people were abducted from West Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the ...

(1750-1758) / National Portrait Gallery, Si; Binoculars: Michele Marconi On September 19, 1738, a man ... Quaker meetings. “Benjamin gave no peace” to slave owners, the 19th-century radical ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived in mid-19th-century France. The study revealed that the child had suffered ...

One of England’s earliest Quaker burial grounds has been recognised for its historic importance. The 17th century site at Lower Hazel in South Gloucestershire has been granted Grade II listed ...

The US has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. But an abandoned underground military site poses a major environmental threat as the planet warms. Researchers found thousands ...