The Old Patent Office Building now houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. A new exhibition spotlights the structure's rich history of encouraging innovation

Now on view at the New York Historical, "Revolutionary Women" spotlights figures with connections to the state, including a Jewish chocolatier, a Mohawk leader and a woman who disguised herself as a m...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters

Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles the last four years of the statesman's life

Unable to bear the shame of being captured as a prisoner of war, Shoichi Yokoi hid in the jungles of Guam until January 1972.

The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans' daily lives as farmers and enslavers

Potential life on a moon of Jupiter. Bird flu. The brain of the fruit fly. Those are just three of the top ten science stories of the year.

A 19th-century scholar claimed that "Cocker's Arithmetick" had "probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible"

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same