American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century By Gary Gerstle Princeton University Press, 454 pages, $29.95 When Theodore Roosevelt, leading his famed Rough Riders during the Spanish-… ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, a generation of convention-defying American women left home behind to reinvent ...

While focusing on American fantasy illustrations from the early 20th century to the present, the collection featured in the Enchanted exhibition also includes artwork depicting over five centuries ...

Over the next four years, he compiled illustrations of women’s dresses from China, Japan, Persia, Central Europe, America in The History of The Feminine Costumes of the World. Another place that ...

The Women Writers Who Shaped 20th-Century American Literature A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights 24 authors, including Lorraine Hansberry, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Political liberalism in the United States cannot be fully understood without taking into account the work of liberal ecumenical Protestants in the mid-20th century, according to Gene ...