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

Nathan Gorelick traces literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The 18th-century Founding Father is credited with inventing the odometer ... In 1652, John Hull, a merchant residing in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, established the first colonial mint. It produced ...

The Spanish Colonial School, 18th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 1998 the record ...

And as late as the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu wrote that any man who was in love with his wife was probably too dull to be loved by another woman. When did romance enter the ...

Imagine the terror of awakening in a confined, pitch-black underground space slowly suffocating to death 6ft under while trapped in your own coffin. You can't see ...

A lost colonial city dating back to the 18th century was discovered in the Amazon rainforest. The ancient Portuguese settlement had previously appeared on maps, but its exact location was unclear.

Stan Douglas, via David Zwirner Gay’s pirate leader, too, has been replaced by Douglas with a light-skinned Black actor, in an effort to be highly faithful to the way a colonial fight might have ...

The goal of Marxist, anti-colonial and progressive ... in the third decade of the 21st century are possessed by an anti-black racism derived from the early 18th-century racist slavery.

New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo. Recently uncovered documents ...

Former President Donald Trump has floated using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport undocumented immigrants if he’s elected, a law giving the president broad powers to detain foreign ...