It was one of Joseph Sorger's last wishes to have his estate sold at auction at Freeman's, a venue at which he had procured much of his collection.

These days, moviegoers rush to watch films about battling superheroes, smooching tennis players, and existential fashion dolls. For much of movie history, however, film fans loved to watch epics.

In 1842, Friedrich Engels walked the streets of Manchester in the UK, noting its crowded tenements and sunless, smoke-filled ...

Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading ...

By “manners” Tocqueville did not just mean social politeness, but rather the “whole moral and intellectual” attitude of the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron French President Macron toured the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Friday, just days before ...

"Dahomey," the latest film by French-Senegalese Mati Diop, arrived in theaters on October 26, 2024, buoyed by its critical success in Europe. The film premiered in Benin and Senegal before its ...

One of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 19th century was French chemist Louis Pasteur’s discovery that germs cause disease, following on from Italian bacteriologist Agostino Bassi’s ...

Although public Sunday mass was held at the fire-ravaged Gothic cathedral this past weekend for the first time since April ...

No one denies that New York City is the Christmas capital of the world. Indeed, so friendly is the city to Yuletide ...