No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch are going head-to-head to be the next leader of the Tory party. Mr Jenrick is best known as ...

Born in New York, Pach earned a degree in art from the City College of New York in 1903. He also studied drawing with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art, and traveled to Europe in 1903 to 1904 ...

A specialist in American art, she has written and lectured on a wide variety of topics ranging from early American portraits and landscape painting to the work of artists including Will Barnet, ...

After studying at the Independent School of Art, and at the Robert Henri School with Homer Boss (American, 1882–1956) and Abraham S. Baylinson (American/Russian, 1882–1950), Nakian went on to study at ...

He formerly served on the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights, the Children's Aid Society, the Athletics Board of Overseers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Financial Services ...

Those in literary and political circles have long been known to place the 1,200-page biography of New York’s controversial city planner Robert Moses on their coffee tables and bookshelves for ...

Henri Bendel had a high-end clothing store on Fifth Avenue, and in its prime, it was on par with stores like Saks Fifth Avenue. He is “a name known to many, a man known to few,” writes Tim ...

Throughout the evolution of photography, photo books have often been undervalued. Despite this, for numerous photographers, a photo book remains one of the most vital means to showcase their work and ...

The Texas Supreme Court has spared the life of death row inmate Robert Roberson, granting a rare stay of execution as prison officials were poised to administer his lethal injection. The Supreme ...

We were there to walk around a new exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of his book “The Power Broker,” a biography of the urban planner Robert Moses. The book is practically sacred among ...

Robert Smith is a host for NPR's Planet Money where he tells stories about how the global economy is affecting our lives. If that sounds a little dry, then you've never heard Planet Money. The ...