As the Ottoman Empire became a world power in the fifteenth century, it also became a center of culture, producing original political literature and philosophy.

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The Ella P. Stewart Scrapbooks offer insight into the life and legacy of a pioneering Black woman who broke color barriers and helped birth the fight for civil rights.

E. M. Forster’s novel captured not only the tensions between colonizers and colonized but also the fraught internal politics that shaped India’s fight for independence.

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Tropes from science fiction and fantasy have become fodder for political rhetoric and action on all sides in the twenty-first century.

The poignant images, at once banal and intimate, in the Lynch Family Photographs Collection contain mysteries perhaps only the public can solve.

Nationalist rhetoric has surged to the center of US politics, but what do Americans actually mean when they say “nationalism” in the twenty-first century?

The plantation hoe, a simple, ubiquitous, and historically ignored farming tool, was specific to the Atlantic colonial project, shows historian Chris Evans.

In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, Americans faced understandable anxiety about what their society would look like—and what they should eat.