The Hidden Grief of American Musicals
Musicology professor Jake Johnson argues that beneath the bright songs and happy endings of midcentury musicals lay the grief and anxieties of postwar America.
Rediscovering The Jewish Gazette
A rare archive reveals how Ireland’s Jewish community navigated identity, culture, and rising antisemitism in the 1930s.
Rollerena: New York’s Fairy Godmother
A newly digitized archive traces a roller-skating queer icon from Pride marches and discos to AIDS activism.
The Evolution of Britain’s Invasion Fiction
How fears of foreign plots and national decline moved from nineteenth-century novels into today's thrillers.
The Oral Histories of the AIDS Crisis
The voices of artists and activists illuminate the human experience behind the AIDS epidemic.
Fritz Eichenberg’s Art of Human Connection
A master printmaker defended the emotional power of representational art in an increasingly mechanized world.
The Forgotten Untouchables of France
For centuries, a mysterious community in southwestern Europe endured extreme discrimination with no clear cause.
Preserving the Art of Ed Aulerich-Sugai
An artist’s work is traced through memory, stewardship, and decades of care.
The Urgency of Indigenous Values
As global crises mount, religion scholar Philip P. Arnold argues the Haudenosaunee’s Great Law of Peace offers a way out of the West’s self-destructive path.
Malibu in Matchbooks: Clues to a Lost Coast
A collection of matchbooks from Southern California maps a vanished mid-century commercial corridor, long displaced by fire and time.