A new exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art puts 17th-century artist phenom Rachel Ruysch back in the spotlight.

This profile fit that of an indentured servant in the Chesapeake Bay of the mid-17th century. During this time, young European men and women signed indenture contracts with Chesapeake planters ...

And historical texts describe epidemics of a smallpox-like disease in fourth-century China and second-century Rome. Still, the 17th-century ... Meanwhile, in Europe, the virus mutated into ...

Ivory Mounted on a carved and polished ebony cross, with silver filigree finishes ...

demonstrations showing 17th-century European and Indigenous agriculture using corn, beans, and squash, and a historical educator talking about 17th-century sailors’ life and food aboard a ship.

As if splashed onto the wall with a monumental brush, Anne von Freyburg’s installations visualize fabric as gestural, ...

Women demanding functional, capacious pockets in their garments is not a new phenomenon — but one stretching back hundreds of ...

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Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany ... conflicts that took place across the European continent between 1618 and 1648.