Painted in hiding from the Nazis, Felix Nussbaum’s Triumph of Death depicts a civilization in ruins. His...
Roman collectors prized Greek masterpieces, creating opportunities for deception. Debate over art forgery turns on how ancient...
As excavation revealed layers of the ancient Near East, biblical atlases gave disputed traditions an air of...
Enslaved Black inventors could not patent their creations, while free inventors faced racism. Their achievements reveal a...
From fairy tales to the water cycle, the Perrault brothers challenged classical authority. Their careers reveal how...
Heat and drought threaten European hop harvests and the acids that give beer its bitterness. Growers are...
James Gillray’s Napoleon caricatures turned imperial grandeur into ridicule. His “Little Boney” mocked the emperor’s masculinity and...
Washington backed Juan Orlando Hernández while drug trafficking infiltrated Honduras’s government. His 2024 conviction raised questions about...
Childbirth practices across the ancient Near East shared materials and practical rituals. Egyptian and biblical accounts reveal...
Ayahuasca tourism can overlook the Indigenous traditions that give ceremonies spiritual meaning. Respecting their cultural roots also...
Ancient DNA in Argentina can strengthen Indigenous histories or cast doubt on ancestral ties. Community collaboration is...
The 442nd’s Japanese American soldiers won extraordinary honors amid wartime incarceration. Their service and the dissent surrounding...
Dutch and Flemish art cannot be separated from slavery’s legacy. Black scholarship and artists offer ways to...
California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, sought to exclude Black residents despite the state’s ban on slavery. His...
Black communities helped people escaping slavery build new lives in Southern cities. Secrecy protected fugitives but left...
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation helped turn the Civil War into a fight against slavery. Its limited reach and...
Born into a Virginia family of enslavers, George H. Thomas fought for the Union. Black soldiers challenged...
Between the ninth and eleventh centuries, expanding trade routes carried captives across Europe. Political fragmentation and rulers’...
Religious orders in New France sought to convert Indigenous peoples and regulate settlers’ lives. Their schools and...
Early Islamic painting combined vivid figural scenes with richly colored ornament. Palace walls and painted objects reveal...
In July 1943, the Fascist Grand Council approved Grandi’s appeal to the king. Mussolini was dismissed hours...
After iconoclasm ended in 843, Byzantine church design developed alongside monumental sacred images. These traditions crossed political...
From medieval illuminations to modern commercial editions, Passover Haggadahs show how Jewish communities reshaped a story of...
Tallinn’s fashion house drew on unofficial access to Western styles while working within the Soviet system. Its...
Moscow’s All-Union Fashion House aimed to bring stylish clothing to Soviet citizens after World War II. Factory...
In nineteenth-century Istanbul, European fashion spread through women’s social contacts, revealing class divisions and bringing Muslim and...
Images and surviving objects offer clues to Greek middle-class women’s lives under Ottoman rule and how possessions...
In occupied Yugoslavia, Tito’s Partisans fought for liberation while rival Chetniks and competing Allied interests shaped a...
Medieval English priests imagined both women and men using love magic, revealing varied beliefs about desire and...
Liberals who rejected Gladstone’s Home Rule bill went from cabinet dissent to campaigning against their own leader....