Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman.

D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...

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Call it a recession indicator or simply growing up, the culture is constantly craving nostalgia. Once a generation’s trend cycles have become stale, they begin to romanticize a palatable, upgraded ...

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of Now You See It, Now You Don’t. In the beginning, not a whisper ...

In this age where anyone can navigate any city around the globe like a local, with a simple tap of a smart phone, a new exhibition has the viewer step back in time to a far different way of exploring ...

Explore the controversial claims surrounding Albert Pike's alleged letter predicting three world wars, including details on ...

Last Updated on September 23, 2025 by Matt Staff The closing years of the nineteenth century were marked by rapid change. From 1895 to 1899, society balanced between tradition and the modern age, ...

Nineteenth-century presidential campaigns have evolved from years of restrained candidate participation to the dawn of 20th century’s media driven contests. In seeking to persuade the citizenry for ...

This post describes the speediest means of reloading firearms in the 19th century. The main focus is not the ammunition capacity of any particular type of arm, but rather how quickly various arms ...

A nineteenth-century house in Middlesex County has been restored to serve a new purpose. Its story isn’t just about ...