The pen. The clink. The slammer. The joint. The cooler. The nick. The big house. The hoosegow. Whatever you call it, it is the place most of us dread ending up: prison. A central pillar of our modern ...

A new waltz from 19th-century Polish composer Frédéric Chopin has been unearthed at a New York museum.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the waltz changed the relationship between music, people and the wider culture in Britain from its arrival in the early 19th century onwards. Show more Melvyn ...

BTS is our No. 19 Greatest Pop Star of the 21st century for how the group took South Korean pop music to new global heights.

It's 2025. HBO's "Dune: Prophecy" is one of the most popular shows streaming, and the federal government just announced massive spending on artificial intelligence. The inspiration for "Dune ...

8-year-old kid with a metal detector stumbles upon a 19th century shipwreck Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856. By Mack ...

Only one presidential candidate from 1876 to 1892 won 50% or more of the popular vote: Samuel Tilden, the loser in the controversial 1876 election, did get 50.1%, but ultimately lost in the Electoral ...

Now, in its 11th season, the series kicked off this week with a fascinating program featuring the unlikely pairing of two heroines of the 19th century: Adelaide Ristori and Clara Schumann.

Essay Keep Old Traditions or Adapt? A 19th-Century Church Struggles to Survive. A congregation founded to separate itself from the modern world tried relaxing its rules to retain members but lost ...

Houston Matters A local brass band brings a rare nineteenth century concerto to the stage The Magnolia City Brass Band presents a concert featuring Oskar Bohme’s 1899 Trumpet Concerto and music ...

The bombastic 19th-century anti-vaxxer who fueled Montreal’s smallpox epidemic Alexander Milton Ross's tale reveals striking similarities to today's vaccine hesitancy and the enduring challenge ...