Bampton in Oxfordshire has served as an outdoor location for the fictional community of Downton Abbey since 2010.

Louis Silverstein modernized the look of The New York Times. His drawings, some of which are stored in the archives, ...

Battery-operated vehicles were a mainstay more than a hundred years ago, but only a few still exist — one happens to be in ...

The estate started taking shape in 1913, when English immigrant William Robertson Coe, chairman of the marine insurance company Johnson and Higgins, and his wife, Mai Rogers Coe, an heiress to the ...

He reserved his greatest affection for unexceptional 19th- and early 20th-century structures. Echoing his Gloucester watercolors (and decades ahead of the historic preservation movement), he ...

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Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation recently awarded 34,639 children’s books to 73 organizations through its Early Literacy Grant Program, increasing the annual distribution by 15,000 books.

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On the anniversary of her death, Tatler explores the life of the beguiling first wife of Napoleon Played by Vanessa Kirby in Ridley Scott's upcoming blockbuster, Tatler looks into the real life of the ...

The usual 20th-century auction, which followed the Riggio sale, totaled $216.9 million, within its estimate. Two of the 36 lots were withdrawn (both by Warhol), and the rest found buyers.

The idea that famous women tend to be either lionized or vilified certainly hasn’t grown less accurate over the past century. But because Hoffman refuses to condemn McPherson, her book sometimes ...

In his new book “Eminent Jews,” Denby celebrates four leading Jewish cultural figures who emerged in the middle of the 20th century: Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein.