The imaginary island of O Brazil: “O Brazil, or Hy-Brasil as it was frequently was labeled, had haunted maps since the 14th century, first as a mistake, then as a mythological tribute. Its size and ...

There are two sides to every story.

Eugene Vodolazkin rejects the familiar characterization of the Middle Ages as a barbarous era inferior to our own. Trained as a medievalist, Mr. Vodolazkin achieved renown for his 2012 novel “Laurus,” ...

When you step into the Riverfront Art Gallery at the Riverfront Library in Yonkers you are surrounded by images that express cultures from the Caribbean, and its roots in colonialization. The new ...

Stroll through the Gilded Age at The Breakers, an architectural masterpiece built for a railroad mogul and his family more than a century ago in seaside Newport, R.I. Between 1893 and 1895, Cornelius ...