Culture

Can (and should) conservatives reclaim feminism from the radicals?

On the necessary “deep sincerity” of dark humor.

The New York Renaissance, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, was the first Black-owned, all-black, fully-professional basketball team established in 1923.

The long history of trans.

Community cookbooks provide a perspective on the American melting pot.

He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.

In the last decade, some graffiti writers have moved from outlaw taggers to sought-after artists.

Between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drug use to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Babe Ruth's final days revealed his mortality, and made more history, when he encountered a future U.S. president.

In the late 19th century, William Dorsey Swann's private balls attracted unwelcome attention from authorities and the press.

Anthem for a forgotten cohort.

Incarcerated musicians have crafted some of the most iconic songs in American music history while prisons reap the profits.

Skepticism drove some of this more cynical or realistic worldview, based on their experiences growing up in the 70s and 80s.

"I thought, surely after the success of 'Sesame Street' and my contribution to it, all kinds of Latinx talent would flood the media. Not so."

These caricatures of well-known Philadelphians transpose human heads onto animal forms.

The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul.

In the eighteenth century, if people in British North America had to travel, they stayed at public houses that were often just repurposed private homes.

In the pages of "Black Mask" magazine, the Continental Op and Race Williams fought the KKK even as they shared its love of vigilante justice.

The nineteenth-century commitment to thrilling an audience embodied an emerging synergy of public performance, collective experience, and individual agency.

A cooking assignment helps illuminate the lives of Jewish women in the past for students.

Two differing explorations of post-WWII culture, politics, and ideals.

A new biography examines the life and times of the pioneering activist, abolitionist, and writer.

Who was that traveler? And what did she signify to the poet?

The earliest-known version of the dish was a winey, briny, bready casserole.

Black identity is a reality, not an idea.

David Hackett Fischer's book "African Founders" should be the starting point for any reflection on the enduring African ­influence on American national ideals.

The woman with the pen name Onoto Watanna had a stunningly productive literary career as a cookbook writer, novelist, and screenwriter.

For 50 years, this bizarre act was one of the Atlantic City's biggest attractions.

The long, strange, history of the baseball cap.

Attendees packed D.C.’s Griffith Stadium in 1951 for the wedding spectacular of gospel singer Rosetta Tharpe, who’s now the subject of a show at Ford's Theatre.