A lot of work goes into maintaining a proper library, let alone a proper library housed in a mid-18th century Baroque palace and featuring thousands of texts dating as far back as the 1300s. If that ...

A federal judge on Saturday barred the administration of President Donald Trump from deportations under an 18th-century law that Trump invoked just hours earlier, asserting the United States was being ...

AMHERST — A large, 18th-century portrait of an English nobleman that was vandalized in the spring is being restored and should be back on display at the Jones Library next month. Police were alerted ...

SAN MARINO >> The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced Wednesday, Sept. 23, that it has acquired a newly discovered painting by American-born artist John Singleton Copley ...

From Jan. 23 to Aug. 2, the University of Wisconsin Special Collections presents their first ever educational board games exhibition titled “‘Most Agreeable & Rational Recreation’: Two Centuries of ...

The National Library of France has undergone an extensive renovation, and relics from Charlemagne to Voltaire are now on display. By Elaine Sciolino PARIS — King Dagobert’s bronze throne.

Kehinde Wiley has been busy at work on many exciting projects. From the Obama Portraits touring around the country to his redesign of the MTV VMA’s trophy, along with designs for American Express and ...

What’s the opposite of a white cube exhibition? Touch Jamaica, Rejin Leys’s show of paper sculptures set among the period props of a historic home, feels pretty close. The Queens-based ...

Casey Samson first stepped into the 18th century before he could walk. Now, with his wife, Abbie, he makes it his life’s work to help others travel to the Revolutionary War era. The Samsons own and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The 18th century was undoubtedly America's most significant period to date. Smack dab in the middle of the Era of Enlightenment, it was a time ...

Yann Sordet, director of the Mazarine Library and the Library of the Institut de France, stated that the Mazarine Library – ...

Ahmad ibn Fadlan wrote the only eyewitness account of a viking funeral. German Vizulis/Shutterstock (made using Canva) On August 27 1761, a Danish explorer started a small riot in the grand bazaar of ...