July 3, the Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Republic of Texas Presidential Library will present “The Many Faces of Sam ...

The 8’ x 10‘ oil painting was made in Ohio by Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) for our country’s 100th year anniversary.

In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...

by Pepys Library; Carlton, William J. (William John), b. 1886 Publication date 1914 Topics Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703, Incunabula, Early printed books, Shorthand, Manuscripts Publisher London : Sidgwick ...

‘Hat honour’ has not entirely disappeared – though the ritual of ‘making a leg’ has done. Thus, men may still remove their ...

Georgia-raised country performer Willow Avalon talks about vintage dresses, her keys to survival and her album "Southern ...

This 2024 painting by George W Bush shows the 2013 dedication of his presidential center at SMU, in the presence of fellow ...

The lure of sunken treasure under the waves has wreck-hunting salvage investigators scouring the sea beds to make their millions – but ownership of the lustrous loot is always hotly contested ...

Loquacious, erudite, entertaining, maybe even a little pretentious, but agreeably so: these are all impressions of Robert ...

Samuel Pepys (formerly Morland’s tutee at Cambridge,) wrote in his 1667-8 years diary, that the machine of Morland is very pretty, but not very useful, while the famous scientist Robert Hooke, wrote ...

When Samuel Pepys kept copies of his letters they were always exactly as sent; John Evelyn, his constant correspondent, copied out an appropriate selection of his, having given them a polish, ...