Ann Lee was the founder of the 18th-century religious sect known as the Shakers. The Testament of Ann Lee depicts her true ...

Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American ...

Like everything else that is good about America, the story of Christmas is the story of revolutionary acts against nativism, ...

Production designer Sam Bader tells AD how the religious group’s villages and beautifully crafted furniture were recreated ...

To outsiders, Ann Lee was a madwoman, a dangerous nonconformist and a sexual deviant; but to her faithful, “Mother Ann” was ...

And now, with Fastvold directing, we have The Testament of Ann Lee — a stirring and, yes, difficult movie that features a blazing Amanda Seyfried as the Shaker leader. It’s a performance that will ...

"The Testament of Ann Lee," a sometimes punishing look at the turbulent life of 18th century Shaker leader Ann Lee, is ...

Sheikh Hassan Nsubuga, who has for years tackled the Christmas vs Islam puzzle whenever it is the season, calls that argument ...

It took a village to build a village for the Shakers in Hungary, far from their original stomping grounds in Upstate New York ...

In Tompkinsville, nestled in Monroe County near the Tennessee border, Boone’s extended family left its own imprint on the land. It all started with his youngest sister, Hannah.

Also in theaters, Jack Black and Paul Rudd star in a meta reimagining of Anaconda, Amanda Seyfried in a Shaker origin story, and Ralph Fiennes in World War I-era film.

Christmas promises that God is with people the world has forgotten. The first Christmas, Mary and Joseph were forced to ...