James Madison - known as the father of the US constitution - served as president from 1809 to 1817. The photograph of his wife joins the National Portrait Gallery’s collection of around 230 ...

professor of art history at James Madison University, as the winner of its 2024 Director’s Essay Prize. Her essay, “Lorenzo Homar’s Cine Alba: An Intimate Portrait of North American ...

On August 24, 1814, Dolley Madison rescued several important state documents and a now-famous oil portrait of George ... President James Madison asked his wife to stay behind in the White House ...

The Smithsonian National Portrait gallery acquired a recently discovered daguerreotype of first lady Dolley Madison, paying ...

In 1781, during the last weeks of the American Revolution, General Cornwallis and his British forces evicted William & Mary President James Madison (cousin of the ... decades – as well as Colonial ...

(President James Madison’s Attorney General Richard Rush ... Gilbert Stuart’s iconic full-length portrait of George Washington, was broken from its frame so that its linen canvas could ...

The Urbana Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution met Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, at 6 p.m.

A renowned portrait of Winston Churchill that was reported stolen from an Ottawa hotel has been handed over to its legitimate owner during a ceremony at the Canadian embassy in Rome on Thursday. (AP v ...

The event features paintings, sculptures & prehistoric pottery. The Edwardsville Masonic Lodge will have a breakfast benefit for the Historical Society.

Everybody dies. But not everybody is embalmed at Frank E. Campbell, a discreet mortuary on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, including hardcover and paperback ...

The seasonal differences of the movie calendar have eroded a little bit with time. Neither of the last two Oscar juggernauts ...