In England, Alfred Hitchcock cultivated a comedic sensibility that shines through in his Hollywood thrillers.

The wing-cases of gold-enameled weevils hung from necklaces; muslin gowns were embroidered with the iridescent green elytra of jewel beetles.

Contemporary Spanish genres like flamenco and zarzuela still carry the weight of cultural associations with Franco’s fascist regime.

The science fiction author Cixin Liu is best known for his mind-bending trilogy The Three Body Problem.

Well-researched stories from CNN, The New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

But one hasn't been seen in the U.S. since 1995, not long after the end of the last reintroduction program.

Flapperismo was no more appreciated by Hispanic guardians of traditional femininity than it was by Anglo-American ones.

In the 1950s and 1960s, families planning for the apocalypse often took a homespun approach.

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The New Deal revolutions in law and policy were so successful that the economist John Kenneth Galbraith took their accomplishment for granted.