“A Democracy of Images,” open today at the American Art Museum, features 113 images that span the history of American photography, including William Eggleston’s Tricycle (Memphis), c. 1975.

The American frontier is ... He and his family are researching a ... got to work turning an egg farm that once housed 3 million chickens into what he now touts as a “state-of-the-art ...

In 1833, an expedition led by Prince Maximilian, a German naturalist and explorer, and Karl Bodmer, a Swiss painter and illustrator, left St. Louis for a historic yearlong journey on the Missouri R… ...

Both sport and spectacle, the rodeo has become emblematic of the American frontier — and yet, its journey to become such a symbol is an international one, and one that’s 500 years in the ...

On the evening of July 12, 1893, in the hall of a massive new Beaux-Arts building that would soon house the Art Institute of Chicago, a young professor named Frederick Jackson Turner rose to ...

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," he noted that, according to the most recent U.S. census, so much of the nation had been settled that there was no longer an identifiable ...

What started several years ago as an effort to gather some family history from his mother in the week before she died, continues to bear fruit for Encinitas Author David A. Jacinto, who this past ...