This week I’ve been burning the midnight oil to get my column written. I had to address the elephant in the room ... "cakewalk," a dance competition held among enslaved black people in the Southern ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned when he found out his inherited 19th-century gambling wheel was worth a small ...

The true life events that inspired Melville’s Moby Dick is a tale of horror greater than any novel could describe.  In the 1800s, an entire industry was ...

They didn’t know the storm was bearing down on Cape Ann, blocking his return and leaving his formidable wife to tend both lamps with only ... second half of the 19th century and opening decades ...

Remember the ’90s? If you do, here’s some news that might make you feel old: We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years ...

Moscow is working on a plan to merge its biggest oil companies into a single national champion, a deal that would tighten President Vladimir Putin’s grip on global energy markets and Russia’s ...

Who knew what, and when, from the start of the 19th Century on, about the impact of ... was to preserve in oil paint the view about to be destroyed by the forthcoming construction of a new canal ...

At the center of Water of Life is Gangajali "Sacred Water Urn" (20th century) which the Guinness ... by Henry Ossawa Tanner, an oil on canvas. "Here, Tanner wants to paint the moment the angel ...

Crude oil prices fell for much of Wednesday morning even as major oil companies rallied. Brent crude recovered midday and was trading close to flat, while a basket of U.S. oil and gas exploration ...

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Democrat Josh Riley has secured a narrow victory in the race for New York’s 19th Congressional District. The district stretches from Tompkins County to the Hudson Valley, and includes the cities of ...

In tallies posted on the Secretary of the State’s website Wednesday morning, Osten received a total of 25,648 votes on three ballot lines, and Guidone received 19,456 votes. Osten was cross ...