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...
Chaucer’s Monk wears fine clothes and prizes hunting despite his vows. Martin Laidlaw reads his portrayal and...
The Canadian Museum of History traces the enslavement of Indigenous people and Africans in New France and...
Alpine singers inspired American folk-singing families, whose harmonies blackface troupes adapted in the 1840s. The borrowed style...
From the years before the Civil War onward, composers put baseball to music. Historic sheet music from...
National Archives photographs show African Americans serving in the military and supporting the war at home. This...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin captivated readers before the Civil War. Its changing reception reveals how an antislavery bestseller...
Elizabeth Richardson joined the American Red Cross in 1944 and served GIs from Clubmobiles overseas. Her letters...
Acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1974, the Anne Schofield Collection brings together about 1,000...