Culture

Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash cancelled gigs in Belfast during the violent 1970s, but Pride played on.

Listen to Blood, Sweat and Tears again.

“Rescue Me,” on repeat.

The dropout was not just a hippy-trippy hedonist but a paranoid soul, who feared brainwashing and societal control.

The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it.

Discrimination and mistranslation have long obscured the dish's true origins.

We can’t allow the impression of a historical lack of diversity in the art form to limit access to the industry today.

The American yam is not the food it says it is. How that came to be is a story of robbery, reinvention, and identity.

Bodybuilding is routinely presented as the very apex of male heterosexuality—but its history is a bit gayer than you might think.

19th-century African American writer Charles Chesnutt’s subversive literature.

Pass the free enterprise, please.

The flamboyant big-cat aficionados of the Gilded Age weren’t strangers to fierce competition, threats and bizarre drama.

How racism has shaped the history — and present — of bicycle use.

King recalled: “I liked his voice, though I had no idea he was getting ready to conquer the world.”

Experiencing history in Assassin’s Creed.

For most people, birthdays were once just another day. Industrialization changed that.

The anatomy of the “orphan train” genre.

Candies of the Halloween season have roots in the sweet treats and real horrors of the Great War.

It's a tale thousands of years in the making.

An introduction to salvage anthropology.

Carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and wearing scary costumes are some of the time-honored traditions of Halloween. But why do we do them?

A reissued collection, long out of print, revives the author’s masterly stories of horror and unease.

Her performances of the Black spiritual in the nineteen-thirties caused American and European audiences to fall silent in awe.

From the first morbid films a hundred years ago, scary movies always been a dark mirror on Americans’ deepest fears and anxieties.

Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.

Scholars have yet to identify the young boy, but new research offers insights on his age and likely background.

Photographs of empty city streets went out of fashion, but lately are coming back again. What's lost in these images of vacant streets?

Since the 19th century, women have abandoned restrictive undergarments while pursuing social and political freedom.

Civil War veterans could be unmanned by drinking too much, and their service did not insulate them from postwar blights on their manhood.

The untold story of a world-renowned architect, an obsessive librarian, and a $5,500 house that never was.