I had only come across Henri Bergson recently—a friend had fleetingly mentioned that his text on memory was difficult to grasp, perhaps.

For the first time, the Louvre hosts a stunning fashion exhibition, where the legacies of Chanel, Balenciaga, and Versace ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

Spectacular” treasures awarded to an Orcadian naval officer for his actions during an 18th century siege have returned to Orkney after ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and ...

During Vincent van Gogh’s year-long stay in a French asylum, he created some 150 paintings—including Irises and The Starry ...

Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...

Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.

History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...

LONDON (AP) — Norman Gregory is an institution within an institution. He’s been working at the historic Smithfield wholesale meat market in central London since 1961, witnessing first hand the rapid ...