Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American Revolution. The first of the American opera houses is believed to be in Williamsburg, Va., and dates to ...

Ten years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all the men who signed the document. He wanted to paint their likenesses as part of a monumental work depicting the ...

In 1984, 20 volumes of 5,000 letters by an 18th-century feminist were discovered in Natchez, Miss. They were written by Judith Sargent Murray, who copied all her correspondence starting at the age of 23. Historians are still trying to digest ...

Even during the dreariest spring, New England holds a wealth of places to visit for history lovers. There are battlefields for the war buffs, museums for the art lovers, cemeteries for the genealogists, academic campuses for aficionados of fine architecture ...

Thomas Hutchinson, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, had one of the finest homes in Boston – until August 26, 1765. That was the night violence boiled over in response to the British plans to impose the Stamp Act on the ...

When Andrew Wyeth was born exactly 100 years to the day after the birth of Henry David Thoreau, his father was delighted. Henry David Thoreau was a favorite of the Wyeth family, which produced some of the best-known artists and ...

Daybreak Maxfield Parrish in 1922 was inspired by New Hampshire’s scenery to create the lush, romantic painting  Daybreak, which became the most popular art print of the 20th century. One in four U.S. households owned a print of the neoclassical ...