The case of Jane Clouson, a domestic servant from Deptford in South London that was the main topic of conversation for many ...

A sweeping new history explores facial hair as a proving ground for notions about gender, race, and rebellion.

Before there were DMs or selfies, there were watercolour self-portraits, and an American artist boldly used one to send a sensual painting to her lover.

PARIS — Elie Saab, the Lebanese designer long favored on the red carpet, returned to familiar territory on Wednesday, with fall haute couture — and did so unapologetically. In Paris, fashion ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku Klux Klan.

On Wednesday, the Wisconsin supreme court ruled to overturn the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban, determining that a more recent law, criminalising abortions only when the fetus is viable ...

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the individual cell blocks that were ranged radially around the tower ...

More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films released since Jan. 1, 2000. See how their ballots stacked up.

Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.

As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron- and steel-framed towers. Now, its custodians want people to know that.

In a New York that still glowed amber-gold after dark from sodium streetlamps, the Tunnel nightclub distinguished itself for a seediness that appears, in retrospect, almost incredible. From 1986 to ...

A 19th-century Victorian water tower in Suffolk has been carefully transformed into a seven-story coastal home with panoramic views and modern interiors.