Thrifting can be lots of fun, and it's a great way to score some great finds, including valuable antique picture frames to really give your home some character.

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains ...

An exhibit at the Morgan Library celebrates "a lively mind," including with items like a letter she wrote with every word ...

Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

We also usually see royals wearing a number of sashes and ribbons with miniature portraits embossed on them—these are often ...

This exhibition shows off the glitz and glamour of the period while presenting a subtler message about the role of royalty in ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

In the grimmest, austerest background of restrained New England habit and tradition in the mid-nineteenth century, there suddenly opens a sunlit door and out steps, floats rather, this white ...

For more than a century she has been known as the woman behind the throne, the empress who through skill and circumstance rose from lowly imperial consort to iron-fisted ruler of China at a time ...