The men and women who tracked down looted art after WWII didn’t just go after stuff stolen by the Nazis. They also searched for treasures stolen by the Japanese. Sort of.

While some viewed photography as a competitor for their customers, Dutch portrait painters reaped the benefits of the emerging medium.

Working with her sister, Cassandra, the teenaged Austen composed a satirical send-up of England's monarchs.

Revolving around student life, campus novels present a microcosm of the outside world, staged far from the humdrum of middle-class realities.

The designer’s impulse to convey his two selves to the public stemmed from a desire to be seen as genuine artist working in a world of artifice.

The study of Melville’s novel is enhanced by contextualizing it with primary and secondary sources related to the American sperm whaling industry.

Developing visual literacy skills unlocks a means of understanding and engaging with the world that cannot be replaced by any text.

A Spanish princess who became a German queen, Margarita Teresa lived a life structured by Catholicism and cut short by consanguinity.

This year marks the centennial of the publication of E. E. Cummings’s novel based on his imprisonment in France during World War I. 

Philip Sidney’s attempt at translating the Psalms ended with his early death. Then, his sister took up the cause—and proved herself the superior poet.