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....
Debates over Lorca’s sexuality helped reshape Spanish literary criticism. Queer readings challenged inherited exclusions and explored how...
Before D-Day, some English villagers were evacuated for Allied training. In Normandy, civilians endured the fighting as...
On June 6, 1944, the 16th Infantry Regiment landed under devastating fire at Omaha Beach. Despite nearly...
In 1851, Urquiza took Rosas’s resignation offers at face value and reclaimed Entre Ríos’s delegated powers. The...
Steven W. Holloway traces how reports and images of Nineveh crossed the Atlantic, shaping nineteenth-century Americans’ ideas...
In 1465, Juan Pacheco and his allies stripped Henry IV’s effigy of royal authority and proclaimed Alfonso...
In 238 CE, Rome’s Senate defied Maximinus Thrax, recognized the Gordians, and elected Pupienus and Balbinus. Victory...
A 1955 advice letter pitted love against financial security. Italian diaries complicate that choice, revealing how family...
At Dura-Europos on the Euphrates, Roman soldiers lived among diverse communities. Their doomed defenses preserved religious wall...
Images of women making textiles meant more than daily labor in ancient Iberia. As household production expanded,...
With few garments surviving, portraits and dowry records reveal how imported fashions shaped women’s dress across 18th-century...