An opera looks at Victoria Woodhull, whose story centered on politics, sex and scandal. By James Barron Using a blizzard and a scarf, David Hammons humanized an otherwise demeaning 19th-century ...

IS there anything in America more peculiar to America, or more curious in itself, than one of our ‘“fashionable” Protestant churches,—such as we see In New York, on the fifth Avenue and in the ...

THERE are more than thirty thousand preachers in the United States, whereof twenty-eight thousand are Protestants, the rest Catholics,—one minister to a thousand men. They make an exceeding great army ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Situated west of the U.S. Naval Observatory, Beecher Street NW is likely named for Henry Ward Beecher, the ...