After accepting public nominations, the Massachusetts Senate plans to commission the State House's first busts of women.

A bust of Berkshires' freedom fighter Elizabeth Freeman, the first enslaved woman to successfully sue for her freedom in the ...

President Donald Trump has invoked a rarely used 1798 law that gives a president immense powers to arrest and deport ...

Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...

Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of an executive order on 'saving' the ...

34.The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in US history, resulting in the deaths of over ...

History is contested. There will always be a variety of views about what should be included and excluded from America’s story ...

But the retribution effort is far more expansive, efficient and creative than that — and less reliant on the justice system.

“I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene ... Though far off, he was omnipresent in portraits, pamphlets and holidays celebrating his birth.

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

In the end, a group led by congressman and former president John Quincy Adams ensured Smithson’s ... including the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History ...

Whether by accident or design, the contributions of women who have shaped our Commonwealth and nation have too long been ...