Culture

Homophobia at a CrossFit is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist without queer people.

Essays published in a high school paper reflect the boys' efforts to prepare themselves for fighting in the Civil War.

'The New York Times' was an early adopter of style guidelines.

The swimsuit that's controversial now for its sexist overtones was once controversial for its suggestions of women’s liberation.

A few of Encyclopædia Britannica’s famous readers, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.

While white Americana singers have infused more soul into their sound, black artists still feel restricted by limited expectations.

Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.

On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”

Migrant futboleros in greater Mexico.

A recent photography exhibit at the Getty Center raises difficult questions about our capacity for empathy.

From Davy Crockett to Teddy Roosevelt, this is the legacy of hunting in American culture.

Journalist Elizabeth Gordon had unsparing opinions about the inadequacy of both mainstream and elite notions of design.

The NFL's response to player protests reflects decades of League and U.S. attempts to portray false images of post-racial harmony.

In 1978, an artist/activist hand-dyed and stitched the first rainbow flags for San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day Parade. The rest is LGBT history.

Esquire, 1940: “Salads are really the man’s department... Only a man can make a perfect salad.”

Half a century after the tropical craze of the 1960s, the modern age of escapism is taking cues from the past.

"This is not just a fad. This, for us, was a dance of survival, but it was also a social dance."

A set of 200-year-old ciphers may reveal the location of millions of dollars’ worth of treasure buried in rural Virginia.

Commemorative class books evolved from practical notebooks into collections of hair clippings, two-line rhymes, and summer wishes.

How a census taker and an artist were participants to the grand project of displaying and explaining America to itself.

Because most tales and treatises about this near-cliché of midlife crisis center on men, you might be misled to think they have nothing to do with women’s lives.

"1861" is just so 1861.

Homeowners used to rush to pick up the phone. What happened?

Cyclist Tillie Anderson shattered records, dominated her competition, and earned the world champion title.

It’s probably later than you think, and long after the internet became widespread.

In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.

About 50 years ago.

Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich were hooked on his diet.

In this 1977 documentary, the spirit of Southern culture is captured through four Mississippi artists who tell their stories.

It's a short song with a complicated history.