Erik Satie called Vexations 'simple, yet arduous'. Igor Levit will be the first pianist to perform it solo in public ...

President Trump likes to tout America’s late 19th-century economy as justification for high tariffs on foreign-made goods (“Trump and His ‘Little Disturbance’,” Review & Outlook ...

Photo: Paul J. RICHARDS / AFP/File In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, ...

As the world reels from US President Donald Trump's tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium ...

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens’ newest exhibit, Knowing the West, opens to the public on Friday, March 28 and runs through August 31, 2025.

A regional Australian gallery isn't the first place you'd expect to find a neo-baroque masterpiece that belonged to a Russian tsar. Yet, with some mystery surrounding it, that's just what's happened.

The bones of a 19th-century toddler show medical experimentation was taking place during the industrialization of France. Zinn, et al (2025) International Journal of Paleopathology The Industrial ...

It was discovered by French archaeologists from the Athens School of Archaeology at the end of the 19th century, and is located southwest of the ancient stadium by the Aegean Sea, dating back to the ...

The world’s first intercity railway opened on Sept. 15, 1830. The prime minister of the United Kingdom was on board for the inaugural trip. At a stop along the way, one of the PM’s rivals ...

Russia's use of artillery dates back to the 16th Century, when cannon became prevalent on European battlefields. As in other European armies during the 18th and 19th Centuries, the artillery ...

A 17th-century painting looted by Nazis from the home of a Jewish Belgian art collector is being returned to his family by Tate Britain. The government’s Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended the ...