Nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley sits a pocket-sized paradise where history isn’t cordoned ...

For those interested in viticulture, Baxter’s Vineyards and Winery – Illinois’ oldest winery – offers tastings of locally produced wines. Their specialty fruit wines, particularly those made from ...

Baltimore orioles began to alight on the white clouds of Callery pear trees blossoms lining our driveway on April 26th, more ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Nostalgia is a killer. The term, originally coined in the late seventeenth century, described an illness that came in ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

The film recounts the travel adventures of a young blacksmith's apprentice in the early 1840s as he embarks on a journey from his village in Eastern New York to join his family in Illinois. His ...

But about his personal life he revealed nothing ... (classic French cuisine which was at its most lavish during the 19th Century). However, according to Paul Freedman, Professor of History ...

PITTSBURG, Kan. — We are entering the time of the year where more and more festivals and events are on the calendar. Amid plea to build bridges at papal funeral, Trump has a revelation – about ...

Life within these walls, however, was far from easy. The women were expected to contribute to the institution's upkeep through hard work. A historical account describes their daily routine ...

She began her collection of 19th century photographs in the 1980s after ... it became a crucial tool in the documentation of modern life. Part of what makes the collection so thrilling is the ...