Called athenaeums, a Greek word meaning "temple of Athena," the concept predates the traditional public library.

At the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, a surprising array of living animals make their homes among the famous dead.

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in 'Bread of Angels.' ...

After Mexico’s war for independence, a new bride finds herself alone in a haunted house surrounded by people who don't ...

Learn all about The Gold star Jack Lowden, including a lifelong idol and his childhood quirk emulating him, a surprising ...

Under the glow of streetlamps, wheels rattle over cobblestones as night settles on Ohio’s oldest neighborhoods. Windows flicker with shadowy figures, and whispers drift from alleys where history ...

John Bolton pleaded not guilty Friday to charges him of emailing classified information to family members and keeping top ...

Photo provided Byron Cartwright has a new book about 100 years of Columbus’ musical history entitled “Amazing Sounds in a Midwestern Town: Columbus, Indiana: Small City with a Big Musical Heritage.” ...

To Princess Diana’s former butler, Buckingham Palace was the "gin palace," where the drinks never stopped flowing. Paul Burrell, who served at the royal residence for 11 years before moving to ...

First lady Melania Trump said she has been communicating directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a ‘back channel’ that helped to return eight Ukrainian children displaced by the war, ...

The new and last book in the Gotham series by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mike Wallace, Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945, is an unforgettable portrait of the city ...