Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful ...

A stolen portrait of Winston Churchill that was swapped with a forgery during the pandemic has returned to its rightful place ...

Nearly 5,000 volunteers have transcribed roughly 100,000 pension documents from the Revolutionary War. With 2.4 million pages ...

The Colonial Era living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in ...

Agrippa Hull, a free Black man born in Massachusetts in 1759 and veteran of the Revolutionary War, spent the vast majority of ...

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American Leadership. She is a two-time former fellow of the Winterthur Museum, Garden ...

which was part of Washington's dining marquee during the Revolutionary War, is now on display at a museum in Philadelphia ...

“It’s a powerful statement about Washington and American democracy.” George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait), Gilbert Stuart, oil on canvas, 1796 National Portrait Gallery In addition to the ...

In 1940 he was transferred to Sydney, and was given responsibility for Commonwealth defence works during the Second World War. Elsie Cook founded the antique business Grafton Galleries in 1945, which ...

Widespread displacement and severe shortages of essentials plague Gaza. The war, sparked by a Hamas attack on Israel, sees Israel's retaliatory strikes result in high casualties, with ...

This document, dated July 24, 1783, is signed by George Washington as well as Joseph Trumbull and Lt ... fleshing out the narrative presented by his portrait, his chair and his daguerreotype, all of ...

George Galloway said Yahya Sinwar, the man behind the Oct 7 attacks, had ‘the kind of death that he would have wanted’ Credit: Mohammed Salem/REUTERS In an interview on X, formerly known as ...