The striking headgear sported by members of the Ottoman court in the 15th century provoked fashionable Westerners to don ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

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

On Friday, July 4, the United States celebrates Independence Day, the 249th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself). The British historian ...

Ross and Graham explained that Cole, then an emerging jazz artist, asked Troup to finish the tune for an upcoming recording ...

Scripture says plenty about traits that further or frustrate individual and social righteousness, of course. We’re called to ...

William Kentridge, the renowned South African artist, began to film himself in his studio during the coronavirus pandemic ...

Yesterday, in a 6–3 decision in Trump v. CASA, the United States Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a case ...

Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...

Stationed outside London in early June 1944, Lloyd Falk’s team was smack in the middle of planning for one of the defining events in 20th-century American history. Yet Falk knew ...

As the quintessential symbol of everyday life, we have traced the history of this garment through 16 examples that made ...