Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

The Countess of Castiglione, a ravishing Italian aristocrat living in 19th-century Paris, both captivated and scandalized the French court. In the 1850s, she was known as the most beautiful woman in ...

Is this woman using an iPhone in the 1860 painting "The Expected One," by Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller? Maybe! The 160-year-old painting depicts a young woman walking down a wooded path ...

Pauline Jaricot, whose health was poor, was supposedly "cured" after a visit with the Pope in 1837. Some members of the Catholic Church see the recent findings as a sign of a miracle. The preserved ...

On a hot summer’s night in June 1860, the heavy door of the insane asylum clanged shut behind Elizabeth Packard and she felt all hope desert her. Because she was not mad. She was merely independent.

The Countess of Castiglione in a photo by Pierre-Louis Pierson (c. 1863–66). The Countess of Castiglione, a ravishing Italian aristocrat living in 19th-century Paris, both captivated and scandalized ...