An anonymous donor has given the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Asher B. Durand’s “Progress (The Advance of Civilization),” a painting valued around $40 million.

The painting is part of the ‘Hudson River School,’ a movement of American painters from the 19th Century. Although it stands above the rest of its fellow Industrial Era brethren, Mazow says ...

Fourth-grade students at Dos Rios Elementary School talked about manifest destiny, the transcontinental railroad, the Louisiana Purchase and Morse Code. It was Dec. 14, and the thing that sparked the ...