While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showi...

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showi...

In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Despite having completed his masterful statue David fo...

This literary mystery takes place in 1660 London, when a man named Isaac Inchbold is hired to find a manuscript that disappeared from a rural castle during one of Cromwell's raids. As Isaac searches for the manuscript and tries to unr...

From the garret room of poor artist George Cautley to the busy streets of 1770s London to the glittering drawing rooms of the elite, this richly textured historical novel brings to life the turbulent and exciting world of eighteenth-c...

The Prince', Niccolo Machiavelli's handbook on power-how to get it and how to keep it-has been enormously influential in the centuries since it was written, garnering a heady mixture of admiration, fear, and contempt. Its author, born...