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Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.

Peter Marié, a bon vivant of the Gilded Age, asked hundreds of Society’s prettiest women to allow themselves to be painted for him alone

While the Wright Brothers experimented at Kitty Hawk, a photographer named William Jennings believed he and his friends were making aviation history

Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.

How a favorite local charity of Boston’s Brahmins—parochial and elite—grew into one of our great democratic medical institutions