While Spanish Catholicism and reformatory Protestantism favored black clothing, much of the Renaissance happened in an explosion of color.

Isabella Rosner’s Stitching Freedom showcases embroidered works made by the incarcerated and examines this craft’s historical popularity behind bars.

Though many associate the accordion with polkas and klezmer, the instrument played an important role in Black music after its arrival in the United States.

In romantic literature of the fourteenth and fifteen centuries, fainting wasn’t just for ladies.

Celebrated for his plays, Shakespeare actually opened his writing career with a derivative poem.

In addition to a New Wave hit, Nell Dunn's 1963 book about young women in a poor London neighborhood inspired a Ken Loach adaption that helped shift British attitudes toward abortion.

Without formal training as an architect, Gray created magnificent designs that sensitively blended traditional craft with a modern aesthetic.

Galvanized by an act of racial violence, the band A Grain of Sand brought a new version of Asian American activism and identity to the folk music scene.

All (or at least a lot) of what you need to know before going to this year’s Academy Awards watch party.

Celebrated and damned as the “father of the atomic bomb,” theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lived a complicated scientific and political life.