Renowned portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz may have just captured her holiest subjects yet, lending her iconic visual storytelling to The Chosen: Last Supper, the fifth season of the popular ...
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often ...
From ancient Peruvian pottery and mid-century Modern ceramics, to reimagined Old Masters, an invented queer cowboy movie and ...
Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...
Twice during my six-year stay, they came to Stabroek, having previously made a tour among the islands. The company consisted of but four or five persons.
Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...
In honor of Black History Month, we're sharing information about the lives of some of the African-American people and groups who have made an impact ...
Sleep amid surrealists at London’s Broadwick Soho, or wake up to contemporary favourites at New Hotel in Athens – indulge in ...
A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history ...
“We kill the tyrants or die trying to, for we are many and they are few,” proclaims a mayor pushed to his limits in a new adaptation from Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga of the classic 17th-century ...
American Photography at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is a chilling yet fascinating archive of the USA’s photographic history.