Two centuries after Shakespeare's death, a lowly law clerk named William Henry Ireland forged the Bard's signature and a seal that convinced skeptics. Hugh Douglas Hamilton / National Portrait ...

Wiltshire, Sir William Henry Fox Talbot, known as the father of modern photography, was a British visionary whose name is etched in the annals. He passed away on September 17, 1877. In 1833 ...

Long before Julia Child published Mastering the Art of French Cooking, artists had already made the connection between food and art.

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology along the Hudson River offers a transhistorical reading of human endeavors along the edges of the Hudson as depicted through the observations of artists ...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10)– Inspired by 18th-century cuisine, Fort William Henry in Lake George is kicking off its Battles & ...

William Harrison, a frontier army general whose ... John Tyler. The Whigs, led by Henry Clay, fielded Harrison as a war hero candidate in 1840. During the campaign, they downplayed Harrison's ...

William Henry Hamilton Trood was a British artist born in 1848 and passed away in 1899. He gained recognition for his work in painting and was particularly adept at capturing landscapes, hunting ...

William Henry Fox Talbot was born on 11 February 1800 in Melbury, Dorset, into a well-connected family. His father died when he was less than a year old and he and his mother lived in a succession ...