The patronage system, which had facilitated the rise of powerful political machines by 1880, abruptly ended when a deranged office seeker assassinated President James A. Garfield in 1881. Democrats ...

Finally, in 2004, records show the building was acquired for $3.45 million by venture capitalist Dylan Hixon and artist Camomile Hixon, who undertook a comprehensive restoration and update that, ...

Can today's divided America learn something from the divisions of the past? zimmytws, iStock/Getty Images Plus People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for ...

(THE CONVERSATION) People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our current divisions like the ones that preceded the ...

Burlington County will receive $750,000 to continue preservation work at historic Smithville Park under grant recommendations announced by the New Jersey Historic Trust. The grant will fund ...

I started drinking alcohol around age 18 as a freshman in college. At the time I had no idea I would go on to drink almost every day for the next 54 years, through marriage, fatherhood and my entire ...

This fall, Pissarro, Manet, Morisot, Renoir, and Rousseau have special exhibitions across America putting masterpieces drawn from around the nation and Europe and on view. ByChadd Scott, Contributor.

Dr. Gustav Zander (1835–1920) was a Swedish physician who helped pioneer mechanotherapy, or the promotion of health and healing through exercise apparatus. Zander studied the mechanics of the body and ...

Jean-François Millet, "The Wood Sawyers" (1850–52), oil on canvas; Victoria and Albert Museum, London (© V&A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum, London) LONDON — How best to paint the scorned, the ...

Quack cures for cancer have been advertised in Western Massachusetts since the 18th century. John Farrell of Leverett was proclaiming a one in the Greenfield Recorder in the 1790s. By 1809-10, a John ...

A late 19th century Victorian home on one of Uptown’s most iconic streets leads the highest priced home sold in the greater New Orleans area for the week of Aug. 10-16. 1721 State St., built in 1898 ...