The Astor family first rose to prominence in 19th-century America after the family patriarch, John Jacob Astor, made a fortune in the fur trade and New York City real estate. Many of his descendants ...

To commemorate Women's History Month, World Cafe is looking back on a century's worth of music history. Every week in March, we're pinpointing distinct moments of every year from the past 100 years, a ...

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Commanding a prime corner on a patrician block on Commonwealth Avenue in the heart of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, The ...

The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” ...

A La Vieille Russie, Véronique Bamps, Didier Ltd., Wartski, S.J. Phillips and Marjan Sterk are among the antique and vintage ...

Yet, like Tolstoy’s Levin, many today are skeptical and scared of rapid advancements in technology. This is understandable – change is scary, especially when it happens so fast. So many of our ...

At the top of Preservation Chicago's annual list of endangered buildings is one built on Randolph Street just after the ...

A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using 19th-century techniques to create ethereal, ...

WORCESTER — The American Antiquarian Society has received what it calls "an unprecedented gift" of more than 18,000 items of ...

Even a century after its construction—and roughly 80 years after it went out of service—there are still lessons to be learned ...

The American vacation was born in the Adirondack Mountains — and now this remote region is experiencing a revival.