An exhibit of Francisco Goya's paintings and prints at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts showcases an amazing talent and a personality who lived through extraordinary and frequently horrifying times.

The last time Congress formally declared war was in World War II.

When perusing the biographies of artists, you'll notice that a large number of them had tuberculosis.

41 years after the Endangered Species act, what is its legacy?

The ubiquitous Christmas tree has a history, and it isn't biblical.

After 55 years, diplomatic relations have been re-established between the United States and Cuba.

Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown have been studying cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) in southwestern Nebraska since the early 1980s.

Before The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was a philologist, a specialist in historical texts.

The populations of the nine species of Indian vultures began to plummet in the 1990s

The "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom followed a very long century of special enmity.