Charles Traylen was a delightfully eccentric antiquarian bookseller. But did he really sell pencils to James Joyce?

In early 1943, the Second World War saw a turn in the fortunes of the Axis Powers when, on July 25th, two weeks after the Allied invasion of Sicily, King Victor Emanuel III ordered the arrest of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rhiannon Giddens, the Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-winning folk artist seen on CMT’s Nashville, will star opposite Ed Helms (The Hangover, The Office) in An Ode to Mary Jo, an upcoming indie ...

The Seneca Falls Historical Society will mark a milestone in its history with a special presentation highlighting the family that once called the Becker Mansion home. SFHS Executive Director Jonathan ...

Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian, Dead at 88 NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose “What Hath God Wrought” became a widely acclaimed ...

That was the mantra of Lenwood Sloan, the Pennsylvania titan who dedicated his life toward the preservation of Black art, history and culture. Sloan died over the Christmas holiday. He was 77. Sloan ...

A meticulous Latter-day Saint archivist and historian, whose work on Joseph Smith laid the groundwork for most modern scholarship on the church prophet, has died. Dean Jessee died in his Murray home ...

WATERLOO — Four U.S. Army chaplains of different faith traditions who died saving others on a troop ship during World War II ...