Learn about the real people in "The Gilded Age," including J.P. Morgan and Alva Vanderbilt, as the series intertwines history ...

HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.

By the ’60s, facial hair was considered countercultural, adopted by hippies and revolutionaries. Its appeal widened in the ’80s, thanks to the rise of rugged mustaches. Lawyers and doctors didn’t grow ...

By the mid-19th century, there was a steady flow of Irishwomen out of Ireland to convents in the Anglophone world. As early as 1833, the Presentation Sisters sent sisters to Newfoundland.

Brown said there was a lot the 19th-century odyssey could teach its audience about life today. "I don't want to pay lip service and sort of negate the struggles that people are going through today.

Renfrew – M. J. O’Brien was widely regarded as one of Renfrew’s founders and early industrialists who spared no expense to build a hockey team that helped pave the way ...

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

There’s something magnificently odd about standing at the base of a 234-foot brick tower in downtown Baltimore, craning your neck skyward and wondering, “How have I never noticed this before?” The ...

Can a few days of movement, mid-century charm, and poolside cocktails (and mocktails) really leave you feeling refreshed and reset? We headed to Flamingo Resort and Spa in Santa Rosa, CA to find out.

Students (and workers) in the 21st century need to know how to think and write critically, reason and problem-solve, and analyze the credibility of information.

Surgeons with beards show lower MRSA colonisation rates, challenging assumptions about facial hair and infection risk.