There's a new Versailles restoration afoot, as experts descend on paintings adorning the billiards room off the Sun King's ...
After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.
On Vancouver Island, privately owned forest poses a unique challenge for the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, with territories ...
A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II ...
Composer Melissa Dunphy discovered an unsolved murder at her home from 144 years ago. She brings her back to life with “Alice Tierney.” ...
If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...
The Prohibition era in the United States, spanning from 1920 to 1933, is often characterized by speakeasies, gangsters, and ...
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Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist ...
The system is rigged: Students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy ...
Maria Herrick Bray lived a life of activity and influence through the second half of the 19th century and opening decades of the 20th, a time when most women had little opportunity to make their mark ...
World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...