Cincinnati's Mercantile Library is trying to solve a mystery involving stained glass, women's suffrage and a church in small-town Indiana.

There is a well-known scene early in “Remembrance of Things Past” when Marcel Proust describes the enchantments of a magic lantern, “in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory ...

For our Holy Ground series, Benyamin Cohen has visited sanctuaries on the brink and others being reborn. In Chicago, he found one filled with the rescued light of ...

In the opening pages of his fascinating and important new book, historian David Levering Lewis sits in an Atlanta church beneath a stained-glass window that depicts his maternal grandmother as the ...