In the 1920s, some women's lives changed radically due to the introduction of new rights and jobs. The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, and some women voted in the November 1920 election.

Artists, musicians, tourists, celebrities, chefs, dancers. Except for different hairstyles and fashions, the people you see in the French Quarter today are not much different from the people you'd see ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Artist Laura Christensen's typical canvas isn't made from linen or cotton stretched across a wooden frame. Her canvas is more delicate; moments captured by a photographers lens and ...

When Henry Yee arrived as a young boy in early 1970s New York City, he did what so many kids in the Big Apple do: He became a Yankees fan. But his interests extended beyond the Bronx Bombers. Yee ...

Gentilly: the vast New Orleans neighborhood that is named, as Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella notes, after an estate outside Paris called Chantilly. Gentilly is "bounded by City Park ...

The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has acquired a group of vintage photographs by renowned arts photographer Jack Mitchell. The collection, which comes to the Archives as a gift from Mitchell, ...

The tale of a struggling Australian media company, a shady American photo archive, an FBI raid, and two million vintage Australian photographs stranded in Arkansas will have a happy ending, thanks to ...

Since the founding of the National Geographic Society in 1888, our documentary work has taken inspiration from the world around us—from fragile ecosystems that demand conservation to monuments of ...

There is a quiet magic in holding a vintage photograph. It is a feeling almost like holding a breath from another time. Long after the voices in the picture have faded and the places have transformed ...