Though her writing career opened in an inauspicious manner, Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

The French painter Edgar Degas was Impressionism’s most energetic and inventive frame designer.

One of the sharpest female journalists of Britain’s Victorian era, Eastlake considered Jane Eyre an exercise in rudeness and vulgarity.

Scholars of politics and media have been tracking an ongoing collapse of trust in representative democracy's core institutions. What's at stake?

The groundbreaking team at Milestone Comics infused Static, Hardware and their other creations with Afrocentric dynamism, paving the way for T’Challa’s mainstream success.

The American artist brought the physical world into fashion photography in ways that were often unappreciated or unpredictable.

How does the medium in which an image is rendered, its materiality, shape our perception of the subject matter?

Better known by the pen name Mourning Dove, Quintasket was a leader and activist who used her position as a public intellectual to fight for Colville rights.

A spokeswoman for white, rural, working-class women, Loretta Lynn used music to articulate the fears, dreams, and anger of women living in a patriarchal society.

Need to clean your sixteenth-century distemper painting? Try a piece of bread (at your own risk).