Preserving nineteenth-century Indian miniatures

Through Georgia's online encyclopedia, Jamil Zainaldin helps disseminate the state's historical gems.

How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.

American lit in a Pacific outpost

Meet the perpetrator of a long-running and remarkably elaborate pseudoscientific scam.

This diminutive steamer, christened the SL Puffin, began life in 1906 as a 5-horsepower gasoline-powered launch.

In an otherworldly black-and-white photo taken in midtown Manhattan by renowned jazz photographer William Gottlieb on a rainy night in July 1948, jam-packed neon signs shine brightly along both sides

Translating the world’s first known manual of counterinsurgency warfare

Texas views the life of Anne Frank through her father's photos.

A Pennsylvania scholar brings new interest to the composer known as the Black Mozart.

Alabama marks fifty years of To Kill a Mockingbird.

South Dakota remembers the Great War in a collection of one family's letters.