Bruce S. Hall is an associate history professor at the University of California Berkeley whose lecture about capitalism in 19th-century Timbuktu is sponsored by the prestigious Fusco Distinguished ...

KINGSTON — The Hudson River Maritime Museum will hold an online lecture about a mid-19th century civil rights case in New York City about Black people facing segregation when they road streetcars.

"There's always been Photoshop, from the very beginning," said France Scully Osterman at the National Gallery of Art on Saturday. "Photos were always retouched." France stood at the front of the East ...

Dr. Marcy Sacks of the Albion College history faculty will present the address “The Most Laughable Things I Had Ever Seen: Currier & Ives’ ‘Darktown Comics’ and Yankee Nostalgia for the Old South” ...

In 1982, Stephan Platzer of Longmeadow volunteered to be part of an historic crew that sailed the Ernestina, a 19th century Gloucester-built fishing schooner, back to America — a gift from the Cape ...

Dr. Robert Dale Parker of the University of Illinois English faculty will present the address “Who Was Jane Schoolcraft?,” about the first known American Indian literary writer, who was from Michigan, ...

Clear Spring historian David Wiles has created a lecture about 19th-century winter life in Clear Spring. The presentation will be delivered by Douglas Claytor at 2 p.m. Jan. 18 at Plumb Grove Mansion, ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Museum of Old Newbury invites the public to a special illustrated lecture, “Secure the Shadow: Spirit & Post-mortem Photography in the 19th Century,” on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m., ...

NEWBURYPORT — Susan C.S. Edwards, executive director of the Museum of Old Newbury, presents an illustrated lecture, "Henry Coit Perkins, Pioneer Photographer," on Wednesday. The program will be at the ...

The invention of movies came about as the 19th century was ending and the 20th century was beginning. Although many viewers saw the advent of cinema as the culmination of Realist movements in the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. SANFORD — York County Senior College’s Winter 2016 Lecture Series will ...