"Black people knew that education was important,” wrote one historian, "because under slavery the law had rigidly denied it to them.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Darwin returned to England after five years at sea, he was already a minor celebrity among natural historians. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But the perspective adopted by the historian need not be that of the present at all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Because, some historians declare, they lacked the aptitude or impetus for mechanical invention. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louis F. Burns, the eminent historian of the Osage, observed, “I don’t know of a single Osage family which didn’t lose at least one family member because of the headrights.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But historians are nevertheless able to evaluate related hypotheses by retrospective tests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot less than the white historians say we did,” Grandpa Nyles explained. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In a contest where only one side had rifles and cannons, historians said, the other side’s motives were irrelevant. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can think of only one partial exception to this situation, and even there I would qualify the exception more than most historians of science do. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

According to Katya Polunina, the senior mechanic who became the regiment’s historian, the women often flew in pairs with a male pilot because the men had more experience. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The suffrage movement was entering a phase that many historians refer to as “the doldrums.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The answer, as historians tell us, has to do with a perfect storm of place, time, personality, and luck: but it also has to do with his brilliance as an orator. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

As food historian Michael Pollan has written, “Virtually every homestead in America had an orchard from which literally thousands of gallons of cider were made every year.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It is possible that historians will one day look back on the images of black men in gangsta rap videos with a similar curiosity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a discarded recorder on the floor that she had once planned to master and a chapter book on Abraham Lincoln from the time she decided to become an amateur historian. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Written by a respected art historian, it included an excellent color plate of every painting attributed to Vermeer. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nonreligious white liberals have typically downplayed the role of religion in the civil rights movement, but historian Aldon Morris is correct in asserting that the lunch-counter protests were not primarily a college phenomenon. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I the most prodigal and mundane of historians. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that we must understand the past in its own terms, though, can place historians under a perverse pressure to find someone in the past who can act as spokesperson for their own views. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The causes of the English Civil War are many and complex, and historians still argue about them. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some historians argue it was nevertheless too traditionalist a society, too unwilling to adopt innovations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why psychologists try to understand the minds of murderers and rapists, why social historians try to understand genocide, and why physicians try to understand the causes of human disease. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The human career,” wrote the historian Ronald Wright, “divides in two: everything before the Neolithic Revolution and everything after it.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The goblin historian decided he might as well get dressed. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Washington never revealed Mulligan’s achievements, but some historians say the tailor exposed two plots to kill Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much as historians of early Eurasia focus on the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He Valleys, historians of the Americas focus on Mesoamerica and the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

However, historians and historical scientists do make and test predictions about what future discoveries of data will show us about past events. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since Toynbee’s attempt, worldwide syntheses of historical causation have fallen into disfavor among most historians, as posing an apparently intractable problem. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Important historically, these were the free people encountered by France and Britain—personifications of democratic self-government so vivid that some historians and activists have argued that the Great Law of Peace directly inspired the U.S. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One historian dubbed it the “Osage Monte Carlo.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Given that this book relies in part on hindsight, many historians will feel justified in condemning it as an example of Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But he was an expert horseman, a self- taught violinist, and an amateur geologist, astronomer, and natural historian. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It remains a challenge for historians to reconcile these different approaches to answering the question “Why Europe, not China.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“To the first settlers, the American backcountry was a dangerous environment, just as the British borderlands had been,” the historian David Hackett Fischer writes in Albion’s Seed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Indeed, historians have discovered that some 35 percent of the cargo typically taken from Europe to Africa originally came from India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It became de rigueur among architecture critics and historians to argue that Burnham in his insecurity and slavish devotion to the classical yearnings of the eastern architects had indeed killed American architecture. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As historian Garry Wills pointed out, he seemed as closely linked to Pat Robertson as he did to Ronald Reagan, and it was a strategy that worked brilliantly. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The former date was calculated by Seneca historian Paula Underwood, who based her estimate on the tally of generations in oral records. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A local historian later ventured that the Osage murder trials received more media coverage than the previous year’s Scopes “monkey trial,” in Tennessee, regarding the legality of teaching evolution in a state-funded school. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Keeper had found me an obliging old colonel of the Buffs, something of an amateur historian himself, who had read the relevant pages of my typescript and faxed through his suggestions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Well, imagine my gobsmacked surprise when one of the king’s ministers told me they needed a historian to visit the goblin court of Ghohg the Evil One. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Roman historians, scholars of antiquity and sketchy accounts support all of these views. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Only the first part was printed in his lifetime, but by the twentieth century historians had found and published most of the rest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Having considered this matter very superficially, historians on the one hand admire these deeds of his, and on the other condemn the main cause of them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Charles Brown, our unofficial church historian, had recorded stories about the church and had compiled photos taken throughout its many years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As historian Lerone Bennett Jr. eloquently reminds us, “a nation is a choice.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only quite recently historians thought there was a straightforward answer to this question. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What historian Barbara Tuchman called the emperor’s “wooden-headedness, in the special variety of religious mania” is often said to be why he didn’t order his army to wipe out the Spaniards immediately. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An ongoing revolution is a nuisance for historians: they prefer to write about revolutions that happened in the past—when, in reality, this one is still continuing all around us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You said last time that you were a historian of ideas,” said Malcolm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But mention of these environmental differences invites among historians the label “geographic determinism,” which raises hackles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Call it no more the White City on the Lake,” wrote Sir Walter Besant, the English historian and novelist, in Cosmopolitan, “it is Dreamland.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“That day could have been the day for the German people to rise up in solidarity to support the Jews,” says historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, so few men from one of the main towns he rode through — Waltham — fought the following day that some subsequent historians concluded that it must have been a strongly pro-British community. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discovering that she had been trained as an art historian, he drew her into a discussion about Vermeer, pretending to be ignorant himself about the painter’s work. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“However, I shall spend my time in this graveyard. I am here as a historian, researching the history of old graves. You understand, boy? Da?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

To take a recent example, historians are still debating whether blueprint copying or idea diffusion contributed more to Russia’s building of an atomic bomb. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sort of. A historian of ideas, I suppose. An historian.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Like an architectural historian obsessed with only one building, Lewis had been studying the construction of fruit flies for nearly two decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some historians and legal scholars refer to the United States as “a nation of laws.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe his uncle was a naval historian or a sailor. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“They’re languages that were once important but that nobody uses anymore. They haven’t been used for a long time, except by historians.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was just the most devastating event in world history...that somehow didn't happen," according to the historian Martin Sherwin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Life, as the historian Hugh Tinker noted, was like being a prisoner on parole. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thus we are told ‘the one and only error of general principle which the historian can commit...is to read history not forwards, as it happened, but backwards.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The historian has to mediate between the past and the present, finding a language which will convey to present readers the beliefs and convictions of people who thought quite differently. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This is a question that many historians have considered. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But as the historian Kenneth Gold has pointed out, the early educational reformers were also tremendously concerned that children not get too much schooling. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the important subject of science and the decline of magic the work done by the last generation of historians is curiously unhelpful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Recent surveys by Margaret Poloma, a historian at the University of Akron in Ohio, found Assemblies members more educated and better off than the general public. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

To Fenn, the smallpox historian, the squabble over the number of deaths and the degree of blame obscures something more important. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some historians and mathematicians argue that the Parthenon, the majestic Athenian temple, was built so that the golden ratio is visible in every aspect of its construction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Most historians do not think of themselves as scientists and receive little training in acknowledged sciences and their methodologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Butterfield’s solution was to advise historians to make the past their present. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The source of much of this confusion derives from two apparently problematic features of the historian’s enterprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Up until this point, if a natural historian saw variation between creatures thought to be of the same species, he ignored it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were intellectual transformations of fundamental importance, yet historians of science barely discuss them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As children of their own societies, these early historians naturally emphasized the culture they knew best, the culture their readership most wanted to hear about. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nor can I see why historians should cede many of the most interesting questions to other disciplines—politics, philosophy, sociology—simply because they require a consideration of beginnings and endings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Imbuing violence with holy meaning,” wrote the historian Iris Chang, “the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most laypeople and many historians assume, expressly or tacitly, that the answer is yes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The historian David Arkush once compared Russian and Chinese peasant proverbs, and the differences are striking. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

An older school of historians and philosophers took this framework for granted, while a newer school has wanted to debunk or deconstruct the concepts rather than explain their significance and trace their origin. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“So, the stories were passed down to you by your parents? Or there’s some other family historian who told you. Does my mother know all these stories?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

To my eye, historians have been puzzlingly ready to dismiss such connections. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s a historian, an expert on the goblin-elf wars of centuries past. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

If this were true then it would become extremely difficult to see how historians could avoid writing Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He even dreamed of being invited to travel to the white palace of Dwelholm by the visiting elfin historian. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He was a historian of boxing lore and could narrate all twenty-six rounds of Jack Johnson’s famous bout in Havana in 1915 when the first black heavyweight champion of the world lost his title. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all these respects history is written by an historian who, inescapably, lives in the present. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

To art historians the study of styles is of central importance. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The historian named Strabo declared the marketplace in Alexandria to be “the greatest emporium in the inhabited world.” Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The historian in question was U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, onetime scholar and president of Princeton University. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Who knows where it’ll end? They’ve very likely heard it at the state house in Springfield by now. I have an idea they’ll send over a historian any day now to snoop.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Greek historian Herodotus described it as a stack of eight stepped towers, with gates of solid brass and 120 lions in brightly colored, glazed tiles leading to it. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

As explained by historian Edmund Morgan, in colonies like Virginia, the planter elite, with huge land grants, occupied a vastly superior position to workers of all colors. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I did so because I agree with historian Diane McWhorter that “to sanitize the language of segregation is to mute its destructive force.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hence physicists and chemists can formulate universal deterministic laws at the macroscopic level, but biologists and historians can formulate only statistical trends. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a move that historians cannot explain, Mark Antony immediately left his command when he saw Cleopatra’s fleet break free. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Unlike Darwin—gentleman biologist, and soon to be England’s most lauded natural historian—Wallace had been born to a middle-class family in Monmouthshire. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A leading historian of Africa characterized Africans as inward looking and lacking Europeans’ drive for expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the historian's point of view, the difference between the two models is unimportant. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The historian Garry Wills’s view that Everett’s speech was “obsolete within a half-hour of the time when it was spoken” seems to me a little over the top. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I asked seven anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians if they would rather have been a typical citizen of Europe or the Haudenosaunee in 1491. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, such material has great value to certain historians, such as those who reconstruct legal and social history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He was, most historians agree, one of the worst presidents in American history. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We are all equally surprised that we have been designated civil rights icons who changed history in the eyes of historians and the American people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You do not, I would add, need to be an historical materialist to see that historians need to think about change, development, origins. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were also keen to insist that the history of science be done by historians, not by scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of the worst incidents was witnessed by the distinguished black author and historian Carter G. Woodson, as he hid in the shadows of a storefront to avoid an approaching white mob. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The disk thus constitutes a threatening challenge to historians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here, the historians were acknowledging, they were under a particular obligation to study the history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But later historians have naturally turned the phrase ‘Whig history’ back against Butterfield himself, accusing him of taking for granted the superiority of modern science over all that went before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some historians believe that about one-third of the colonists were Tories, one-third were Patriots, and the rest didn’t take sides. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, today’s scientists, historians, and art collectors have rediscovered and acknowledged her work for what it is: amazingly beautiful, accurate portrayals of insect metamorphoses and ecosystems. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Questions that emerge from worldwide comparisons of human societies formerly attracted much attention from historians and geographers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, as some historians have argued, South Carolina and Georgia were bluffing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This does not mean that its rightness was always apparent, although careless historians and scientists often imply as much; it does mean that its rightness becomes incontestable, at least for a period of time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The kouros it most resembled, it turned out, was a smaller, fragmentary statue that was found by a British art historian in Switzerland in 1990. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My remarks apply primarily to historians of North America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Spurred in part by historians like Cronon, most scientists have changed their minds about Indian fire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For historians of technology, the Phaistos disk is even more baffling; its estimated date of 1700 B.C. makes it by far the earliest printed document in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that view was too simplistic, as some architecture historians and critics have more recently acknowledged. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But with Harding in the White House, a historian noted, “the oil men licked their chops.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

History was secreted in the glands of a million historians. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

According to historian Joel Williamson, the idea that a particularly cruel racism was somehow unique to poor white farmers and laborers was an upper-class myth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yale historian David Musto and other scholars have documented a disturbing, though unsurprising, pattern: punishment becomes more severe when drug use is associated with people of color but softens when it is associated with whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

More important, anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, and historians who were reassessing the environmental impact of indigenous cultures in North and Central America inevitably turned to the tropical forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a sense this process, given the fancy title ‘neo-classicism’ by music historians, was at times nothing more elaborate than plagiarism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To borrow a trope from the historian Alfred Crosby, if Genghis Khan had arrived with the Black Death, this book would not be written in a European language. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This began a period of time some historians call the Peace of Pocahontas. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Not all immigrants believed that was true, but as one historian has written, “Whenever life could hardly be worse at home, they came to believe that life was better in America.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Ever since it was unearthed, the disk has posed a mystery for historians of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I liked researching Nazis as much as the next war historian, but I would never use the term as a nickname. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“America,” historian Daniel Okrent has stated, “had been awash in drink almost from the start—wading hip-deep in it, swimming in it, at various times in its history nearly drowning in it.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And since Las Casas historians, clerics, and political activists have debated whether Europeans and their descendants in the Americas are morally culpable for the enormous Indian losses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There are other historians of grammar who say this Love-His-Labour-Is-Lost explanation is ignorant conjecture and should be forgotten as soon as heard. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The verdict of history, or at least the reigning judgment of most historians, is that the story is essentially true. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Roman historians who later reported on the events at Actium were quick to blame Cleopatra for Mark Antony’s loss. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Only the art historian and the most interested layman can. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The major intellectual pursuit of his last years was a concordance and calibration of the chronologies of ancient civilizations, very much in the tradition of the ancient historians Manetho, Strabo and Eratosthenes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The author talked about how this uproar was probably also good for art historians and museum curators. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

These methods varied by nation, but historians note that, in general, Indigenous peoples fought to capture rather than kill their enemies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, Marxist historians have wanted to argue that the new science was the result of new social relations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some historians of science want to argue that you cannot have laws of nature without voluntarism, and you cannot have voluntarism without an omnipotent creator God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The historian interested in such questions about writing has the advantage that they can often be answered in unique detail by means of the written record itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Military historian John Grenier observes that any time it appeared that the Indigenous population might outnumber settlers in a region, the settlers were quick to resort to “extravagant violence.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the cop would be Clifton's historian, his judge, his witness, and his executioner, and I was the only brother in the watching crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, Jamestown and the other Virginia forays survived on Indian charity—they were “utterly dependent and therefore controllable,” in the phrase of Karen Ordahl Kupperman, a New York University historian. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thus historians who take language seriously need to search out the emergence of new languages, which must represent transformations in what people can think and how they can conceptualize their world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“This, young Scarlett, is where we local historians come into our own. Leave it with me. I’ll find out everything I can and report back.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Although Native historians and scholars have written at length about how events in US history have impacted Indigenous peoples, their perspectives are not often included in history courses. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

All through the war, I did research in ship libraries and borrowed books from Marine officers who were history buffs and who liked the idea of an Indian being a historian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To most historians, the colonial accounts came to seem exaggerated, though exactly why was not often explained. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Today most historians and anthropologists believe the culprit was disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As Chaplin, the Harvard historian, has argued, New England Indians were indeed disconcerted by their first experiences with European guns: the explosion and smoke, the lack of a visible projectile. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Or was he, as some historians claim, merely trying to understand the nature of hybridity in peas? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Eisenstein thesis has never been popular with historians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Such is the fear of being accused of writing Whig or teleological history that it is difficult to find an historian making simple and elementary points of this sort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All of this was important, the stuff of historians’ arguments and doctoral dissertations, but Dobyns was thinking of something else. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the Little Ice Age of A.D. 1300-1500 contributed to the extinction of the Greenland Norse, but no historian, and probably not even a modern climatologist, could have predicted the Little Ice Age. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the chief historian for the Navy Medical Department noted, “If it compares favorably, then that’s the end of the controversy. If it doesn’t match, you change American history.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, historians stated that roughly 620,000 soldiers and sailors, about 2 percent of the population, were killed in the Civil War. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, as numerous historians have shown, the development of a new racial order became the consuming passion for most white Southerners. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is a source that historians of the steam engine have overlooked because it does not discuss steam engines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thus, the difficulties historians face in establishing cause-and-effect relations in the history of human societies are broadly similar to the difficulties facing astronomers, climatologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, geologists, and paleontologists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feebleminded and only resort for historians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A laundry list of at least 14 explanatory factors has been proposed by historians of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their arguments have convinced almost all anthropologists, nearly every professional historian and many philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A historian who had lived at any time between 8500 B.C. and A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What one historian has called “the perishability of revolutionary time” meant that the political will to act was also racing against the clock. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The chronicles are also full of accounts of Koreans in Japan and of Japanese in Korea—interpreted by Japanese or Korean historians respectively as evidence of Japanese conquest of Korea or the reverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before the arrival of Europeans, North America was indeed a “continent of villages,” as some historians have called it, but it was also a continent of nations and alliances among nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A historian, someone who can explain its importance, its antiquity. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In the early 1920s, Carter G. Woodson, a historian and educator who had earned a PhD in history from Harvard seventeen years after Du Bois, served as the colleges dean. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was an astronomer, historian, geographer, philosopher, poet, theater critic and mathematician. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second apparently problematic feature of the historian’s enterprise is that some important developments are quite simply invisible to the participants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But the signals needed the right receiver, and it took years before they finally were spotted by historian Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some historians believe that misgivings caused her to delay. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

To green activists, as the University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon has written, restoring this long-ago, putatively natural state is a task that society is morally bound to undertake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Osage historian Louis F. Burns observed that after “only shreds and tatters remained” of his people, they had risen “from the ashes of their past.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“An historian. What sort of ideas did you mean? Like the ones in this book?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Their role as records of artistic thought also makes drawings uniquely valuable to the art historian, for they help in documenting the evolution of a work from its inception to the finished piece. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a bird’s-eye view—the historian’s view—the Scientific Revolution is a long, slow process, beginning with Tycho Brahe and ending with Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Nature” was God’s creation—and to be safely consistent with Christian doctrine, natural historians had to tell the story of nature in terms of Genesis. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

On a visit to the famous dinosaur fields of Como Bluff, Wyoming, he failed to notice the bones that were, in the words of one historian, "lying everywhere like logs." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A most gifted magical historian and an old friend of Albus’s.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We talked of our mutual friend, the literary historian Maxwell Geismar, who had introduced us by correspondence a year ago. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

To appreciate its absurdity, one can imagine future historians lumping American history with Canadian, Australian, South African, and later South Asian histories, into a conceptual monstrosity called the “Britishistic” period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The myriad factors affecting innovativeness make the historian’s task paradoxically easier, by converting societal variation in innovativeness into essentially a random variable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The horseless carriage was just arriving in San Francisco, and its debut was turning into one of those colorfully unmitigated disasters that bring misery to everyone but historians. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence historians often assume that knowledge of metallurgy reached sub-Saharan Africa from the north. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nor had historians translated that term tomean the emergence of a more authentically democratic brand of politics, a translation that Jefferson would have understood dimly, if at all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“First of all, it’s not ironic. I’m kind of a music historian. And for your info, I thought I could wear, um, one of Dad’s suits. Since he’s not going to be using them.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Professional historians still disagree about the solution; most are no longer even asking the question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He studied them and organized them by kind—in the tradition of natural historians. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It still feels to me as if he has just gone into some next chapter, to be written by historians. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An explanation for the decline of ancient science has been put forward by the historian of science Benjamin Farrington: The mercantile tradition, which led to Ionian science, also led to a slave economy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the end of World War II, when Emperor Hirohito finally told the Japanese people that he was not of divine descent, Japanese archaeologists and historians had to make their interpretations conform to this account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Keegan is among the most esteemed military historians who ever lived, and A History of Warfare was a critically acclaimed bestseller. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The historians and the scientists at Cambridge shared a common education: Latin was a compulsory entrance requirement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were “circular meccas of neon,” in the words of drive- in historian Michael Witzel, designed to be easily spotted from the road. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

In Skadden, the legal historian Lincoln Caplan describes that early world of takeovers: The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But their lives and deaths have had a greater impact on my thinking as a scientist, scholar, historian, physician, son, and father than I could possibly have envisioned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I will leave the debate about why the Renaissance happened when and where it did to the historians. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The passage of Prohibition had only compounded the territory’s feeling of lawlessness by encouraging organized crime and creating, in the words of one historian, “the greatest criminal bonanza in American history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The rest of the neighborhood—bakers, fletchers, candle-makers, booksellers, builders, painters, other historians—would have to pretend they had never been friends with him in the first place. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In 1931 he had published The Whig Interpretation of History, which attacked historians who wrote as if English history led naturally and inevitably to the triumph of liberal values. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And there was the historian who chattered madly to herself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to these historians, replication is a social artefact, not a natural fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Amber speaks as if she's a Belle historian, when we all know the same information. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“He was a bachelor and liked the company of women,” the historian Gary Gallagher says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One of his last acts as president was to place on file in the State Department his rejoinder to Bache’s accusations, which historians have long since discovered were based on forged English documents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had decided to study not history, but historians. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“So your parents knew her? She was an incredible magical historian.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As historian Michael Lerner has observed, “The law that was meant to stop Americans from drinking was instead turning many of them into experts on how to make it.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Taken literally, this assertion seems implausible, and historians’ skepticism seems merited. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Europeans won military victories in New England, historians say, partly because they were divided among themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like a false scent, the authorship question has propelled historians down labyrinthine trails of evidence in quest of the real and true author. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Walter, perhaps the greatest living historian of the ANC, began to tell them about the genesis of the organization and its early days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly what happened next, as far as Galileo was concerned, has been a matter of dispute among historians, because there is some ambiguity in the surviving records. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many historians also credit him with at least one noteworthy contribution to astronomy—namely a universal model that put the planets in orbit around the sun, which in turn revolved around the earth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

What Shapin offers is essentially a circular argument: talk of constraint is incompatible with relativism, but historians are committed to relativism, consequently they must not talk of constraint. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was, in the words of historians Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, a heartbreaking “opportunity found and lost.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The art historian George Ortiz was once asked by Ernst Langlotz, one of the world’s foremost experts on archaic sculpture, whether he wanted to purchase a bronze statuette. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On a bench outside the building that was once the Virginia governor’s mansion, Hannah-Jones is joined by award-winning historian Woody Holton to talk about the birth of America. Perspective | Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

In Islam: The Untold Story, historian Tom Holland said there was little evidence for how the faith was born. Channel 4's Islam film sparks row 2012-09-03T11:59:06Z

Few historians succeeded in passing so completely through the academic membrane into popular culture. 2010-01-29T05:49:00Z

Commissioned as an Army officer upon graduation, he served as a cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall, according to the State Department's office of the historian. Exclusive: Mike Pompeo tells Fox News Digital how he really lost all that weight 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

A splendid book to accompany a BBC series hosted by the eminently readable historian and art critic. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

“A salad at last in control of itself,” is how the historian Laura Shapiro described Jell-O molds in “Perfection Salad,” her book about American cooking at the turn of the 20th-century. How Jell-O Molds Claimed Their Spot on the American Table 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

What will future cultural historians say about the arts in our time? Why there's no art without architecture 2010-06-08T10:18:00Z

This is Raphael's The Madonna of the Pinks, which is not only one of the gallery's finest works – a painting of "concentrated magnetism", according to the historian Lisa Jardine – but one with an unexpected provenance. What lies beneath 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

It was not until the early 1990s that Martin Harrison, a fashion curator and historian who was staying at her house, found the long-forgotten negatives. Lillian Bassman, Fashion and Fine-Art Photographer, Dies at 94 2012-02-14T01:52:25Z

A favorite among art historians, curators, and the general public alike, ‘Eucalyptus’ moves with hypnotic grace and almost human emotion.” Think you’d be inspired by a Calder mobile? Then this writing salon is for you 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

This piece of information now does little but give historians conniptions at the thought someone might have dropped it on the way. The Agony and the Ecstasy: more passion would've been less painful 2013-05-24T08:57:47Z

With other historians of the U.S. economy, I argue that we’ve had three successive industrial revolutions. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

According to historian Freddi Williams Evans’ book “Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans,” Congo Square was codified by an 1817 city ordinance that restricted drumming and African dances to a single spot. “It’s not just a party, it’s our life”: Jazz musicians led the way back to the city after Katrina — but what is this “new” New Orleans? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

The authors credit the historians who have done this work before them, and hope their book for a general audience may play a significant role in just what we remember about the Alamo. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

The art historian Ellen K. Morris is compiling a catalogue raisonné for the artist Edwin Lord Weeks, a Bostonian who narrowly survived outbreaks of disease as he painted in the Middle East. Antiques: Orientalist Paintings and Art Deco Antiques 2013-06-06T21:18:00Z

As a historian who has researched the early history of the word, I'm also interested in how the word's use has changed over the years. ‘Y'all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Bonnie Triyana, a historian who is the secretary of Indonesia’s repatriation committee, said that it was not so simple just to look past the circumstances in which many fossils were acquired. Dispute Over Java Man Raises a Question: Who Owns Prehistory? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

One historian called Haley’s African research “a virtual scenario of how not to conduct fieldwork in oral societies.” Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Though she did say some historians say a variation of the doughnut was introduced around the Civil War. This 100-year-old doughnut recipe dates back to WWI 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

I planned my Bosch excursion with the art historian Gary Schwartz, who was born in Brooklyn but moved to the Netherlands more than 40 years ago. From Hell to Heaven in the Hometown of Bosch 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

“They didn’t want to have too much connection to their own past in the G.D.R. and Nazi time,” said Thomas Macho, a cultural historian who was previously part of the museum’s advisory board. Pandemics Get Forgotten. But Not at This Museum. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Gregory T. Cushman, an environmental historian at the University of Kansas, won support for a project called “The Anthropocene: A People’s History of the Earth Under Human Domination.” New $200,000 Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

But some Japanese historians say the massacre has been exaggerated and some conservatives deny there was even a massacre. China unveils rare star power of Oscar entry 2011-12-11T13:31:11Z

The film historian Tom Gunning suggests that Muybridge was, unwittingly, something of a Surrealist forebear. ‘Exposing Muybridge’ Review: Putting a Cinematic Pioneer in Focus 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

Jean Seaton, professor of media history at the University of Westminster and official historian of the BBC, described the Listener's "profound literary role", from its roll call of contributors to the quality of the editorial. BBC launches online archive of the Listener magazine 2011-03-31T06:00:04Z

“Claiming that ‘An American Family’ is the mother of reality TV is like asserting that Lenin begat Stalin,” said the film historian Jeffrey Ruoff, who wrote the 2001 book “An American Family: A Televised Life.” Television: Reality-TV Originals, in Drama?s Lens 2011-04-17T04:00:04Z

In 2015, renowned slavery and Reconstruction historian Eric Foner wrote, "Slave is a familiar word and if it was good enough for Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists it is good enough for me." "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

Concise, exciting and fact-packed, this look at these pioneers of flight is the veteran historian’s best book in quite a while. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

What holds it all together isn’t his omniscience so much as his curiosity, his historian’s hunger to figure out why what happened happened. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Urban historians have dissected the dynamics of segregation, more fully uncovering some of the most highly camouflaged practices involved. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

The fourth president, she argued, has been ignored by historians or tackled after the more glamorous founding fathers. Fun with Dick and Lynne: The Cheneys team up to sell her new book on James Madison

He gallops through the Middle Ages and strolls through the Blair years, relying too much on recent historians at the expense of their often wiser predecessors. A once and future realm 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Brand, an Australian art historian who previously served as director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, calls the complex, with its new building, “a continuation of Sydney.” Can the Sydney Modern Change How a ‘Sporting Nation’ Sees Itself? 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

The cultural historian Anna Beer’s rewarding new book about the forgotten women of classical music includes insightful portraits of eight composers, a couple of whom are truly forgotten, like the 17th-century Italian Francesca Caccini. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The art historian Leo Steinberg, in a lovely essay, captures the sense of dislocation many felt. ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Whether the results qualify as a comprehensive portrayal is best debated by opera historians, but what is clear is that “Maria by Callas” provides an excellent introduction to Callas’s artistry. Review: Demystifying a Diva in ‘Maria by Callas’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

According to historians, Breuer developed his signature architectural style by designing the Geller house. Marcel Breuer House Demolished on Long Island, Angering Preservationists 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Dubuc said the project would be localized in several markets with the inclusion of interviews with local historians. TV's History channel sets ambitious miniseries 2012-01-03T21:42:45Z

“A more perfect unconscious metaphor for his American cockiness,” the critic and historian Joseph Horowitz writes of the moment, “could hardly be invented.” Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

"We're going to have a toast at the grave," said Chandler historian Loren Latker, who has worked for years to reunite the couple. Raymond Chandler historian cracks lost wife case 2010-09-18T18:32:00Z

Now this corporate architecture of the 1970s and 1980s is getting a fresh look from historians, critics and young architects. In Wayne Thom's revelatory show, a generation of L.A. buildings gets needed attention 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Are these merely puzzles to be decoded to the perennial delight of art historians? Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Was it done for the novel reader, critic, student or the historian of American culture? Over time, the L.A. Times saw Conrad Aiken as brilliant, misunderstood and dishonest 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

As Gorra writes, “Few historians and fewer novelists of his day saw the hobbling vainglorious past so clearly, and few of them made slavery so central to their accounts of the war.” The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

At the time, Yiddish theater was “a flourishing art form,” said Nahma Sandrow, a historian and the author of “Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater.” Preparing ‘The Golden Bride’ for Its Big Day 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

And neither the “master narrative” nor subsequent attempts to reframe it work in Bessemer, as the historian Bass’s tale well-told reveals. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Nobody foresaw the complete removal of the statues and their bases,” said Edwin Slipek, an architectural historian and lifelong resident. For Richmond, a Compelling New Chapter 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

Minstrel shows helped shape American entertainment, historians acknowledge, but also belittled and dehumanized blacks as “other.” A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

With the help of criminalist Perceval Grey and Helen Prescott, a historian with access to old documents, the parallels to the past quickly add up. 'The Truth of All Things': a wicked string of murders in Maine 2012-03-28T19:27:06Z

With “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” the historian David W. Blight wants to enrich our understanding of an American in full who, for more than half his life, wasn’t even legally recognized as such. A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Serious historians would surely find an abundance of oversimplification in “American Genius,” an eight-part series that begins with two episodes Monday night on the National Geographic Channel. Review: ‘American Genius’ Focuses on Rivalries on the Road to Innovations 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Now he’s an amateur boot historian, able to slip easily into a disquisition on what a 19th-century Cornish miner might wear. T Magazine: Sole Mate 2011-03-08T15:50:15Z

“When historians use biography, they generally either write about very noteworthy people – which was not the case with my father – or they use the lives they are writing about to illustrate some bigger story.” How my family’s history in London hid a revolutionary Russian secret 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

In 1962, as a professional historian, he returned to investigate Hitler’s legacy. A Historian Who Fled the Nazis and Still Wants Us to Read Hitler 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

“I like to say she was an ambitious actress, as well as a practical producer,” says film historian/author Jeffrey Vance. 'Little Annie Rooney': Mary Pickford's return to childhood, newly restored 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

We were fortunate because our Israeli cousins proved to be tireless family historians. When History Speaks 2010-10-02T04:09:00Z

“Sometimes there was still shot in the meat,” said Ms. Braun, known as Mimi, an art historian and the longtime curator for the cosmetics magnate Leonard A. Lauder. Emily Braun’s Birds Guide Guests to Their Perches 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

The author Sarah Lewis will talk with Ms. Painter, a historian turned artist, about her inspirations and decision to delve into the visual arts. Spare Times for Jan. 2-8 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Price asked Mr. Nolan if he wanted to see copies of the original prints, the film industry equivalent of offering a historian access to an ancient manuscript. Christopher Nolan’s Version of Vinyl: Unrestoring ‘2001’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

For decades Mr. McCarty, part historian and part sleuth, pursued objects that told the Ringlings’ story. Restoring the House the Ringling Circus Built 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

As the historian Maria Morris Hambourg wrote, in a Metropolitan Museum catalogue, Penn’s “existential portraits” were meant to be jarring and brutal, both for the sitter and for the viewer. An Irving Penn Portrait for the Coldest Days of Winter 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

He was rejected by all of them, he said, until 2006, when he met David Ward, a curator and historian at the Portrait Gallery, a museum not exactly known for taking risks. Wounded in Crossfire of a Capital Culture War 2011-03-30T11:57:54Z

As Ian Kershaw, a prominent historian of Nazi Germany, famously said, "The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference." How to have more productive conversations about racism: Stop focusing on individual intent 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

The strife is evoked by dissolving multiple exposures of clashing soldiers as the actress Jeanne Moreau reads from a French translation of an account by the Jewish historian Josephus. 2010-01-13T00:41:00Z

Some detractors also asserted that Mr. Craft, who was not a trained historian, had let factual errors creep into his biographical writings about the composer. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

Emanuel also includes many local experts – journalists, local newscasters, historians, a Black Lives Matter activist – to address the city’s thicket of racism both past and present. Emanuel: a poignant documentary on the Charleston church massacre 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

“That would be to have her, very soon in the movie, lose her parents,” film historian James Robert Parish said in on the hour-long Biography on Temple. Shirley Temple: A Cute Cocktail of Talent and Charm 2014-02-12T16:13:08Z

The architectural historian mused on whether it would next pass to "the electricity board, the coal board, a lunatic asylum, a convent, school, a sanatorium or a museum?" Why Alan Bennett is wrong about the National Trust 2012-11-21T19:00:01Z

In his brilliant analysis of minstrelsy, social historian Eric Lott has dubbed this paradigm “Love and Theft,” which unpacks the curious fascination — and envy — white people have had from the start with black culture. Analysis: Macklemore apology for win over fellow rapper raises race issue 2014-01-29T05:32:49Z

Curated by art historian Catherine Roche, the museum's interim assistant curator of Asian art, the exhibition showcases works from 13 countries and spans thousands of years. SAM's shining new exhibit 2011-10-12T04:50:20Z

Thank heavens for the dog walker I find it astonishing but not esp. surprising the historians are only looking at documents after they formulate their theory!! Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

This companion to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, including dozens of archival photographs and a foreword by the historian Eric Foner, grapples with the lost promise of American Reconstruction. Newly Published, From the Extraterrestrial to East Jersey State Prison 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

As a historian of early America who has written about tobacco and the aftermath of an epidemic in New England, I've seen similar considerations made in the face of disease outbreaks. As states weigh human lives versus the economy, history suggests the economy often wins 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

The show is based on a book by the same name by food historian Jessica B. Harris, who will appear at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn on Saturday. Juneteenth: 7 Events for Celebrating the Holiday in New York 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The historian Timothy Garton Ash described the process as an exercise in “extraordinary, but some would say a bit crazy, perfectionism.” Piecing Together the History of Stasi Spying 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Although historians aren't sure if the silk weave originated in China or Pakistan, many agree it was carried along trade routes in the Middle Ages to Italy and France. Velvet spotted in all season's jolliest settings 2010-12-20T19:11:25Z

Another popular site for travelers and historians is Cottle Church, now partially a ruin. 5 Caribbean Islands Where You Can Go Beyond the Beach 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” another best picture nominee that year, drew criticism from historians who said it promoted an outmoded “great man” view of history and ignored the crucial role of African-Americans in emancipating themselves. Depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in 'Selma’ Raises Hackles 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Anne Hollander, a historian who helped elevate the study of art and dress by revealing the often striking relationships between the two, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. Anne Hollander, Scholar of Style, Dies at 83 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

When she was in her 30s, she met Elizabeth McCausland, a well-educated critic and historian of American art who became her life partner. Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

"Marvelman Classic" might be of value for comics historians, but not for casual readers. Comics: 'Kevin Keller' gay-teen miniseries should be a point of pride 2011-06-22T18:20:55Z

Hunt, a historian and the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, has also written a biography of Friedrich Engels. A Transporting and Cozy Biography of a Pottery Pioneer 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Some historians say Pershing didn’t really understand what he was getting his troops into when he agreed to send the Second Division in that if he had he never would have done so. Where Americans Turned the Tide in World War I 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

They are all first-rate historians, terrific writers, and they seem to get me. Bill Clinton: By the Book 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

The historian and the writer in him are utterly in sync. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

But for sterner historians, it’s worth noting that our ringmaster in “Wonderland” plays fast and loose with his central definition. Steven Johnson on How Play Shaped the World 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

“His fantasy worlds were very coherent,” Mark Evanier, a comic book writer and historian, said in an interview. Sam Glanzman, Comic-Book Artist Inspired by His War Service, Dies at 92 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

The lead characters of the tale are named in the title, though in an order of importance that might baffle some historians. John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

“A lot of the cultures coming here have something they call barbecue,” says Thomas W. Hanchett, retired staff historian of the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte. Immigrants bring new touches to American barbecue. Just like they always have. 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

O’Farrell explained in a phone interview that she first encountered Shakespeare’s wife at college, after becoming curious about the playwright’s family — something historians have often neglected. In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

The sweep and daring of his intellectual project, and his immense erudition, ensured that Mr. Gay remained an unignorable historian long after his retirement. Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The historian, biographer and author, most recently, of “The Square and the Tower” owns books by people who have insulted him in print: “I do research before taking vengeance.” Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

It’s normally the province of critics, interviewers, and historians to analyze the mechanisms of creative work. The Book That Gets Inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Mind 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

His weakest works from his later years — "countless Mädchenköpfe, or 'girls' heads,' " as art historian Susanne Böller implies — may well have diluted his reputation with their sentimental idealization of young females. Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z

“It was a window out into the world while we were sheltering in place,” said Jonathan Kuntz, a lecturer and film historian at the School of Theater, Film and Television at U.C.L.A. Capturing the Magic of Movies 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Much of this material recapitulates the story as both historians and Naismith himself, toward the end of his life, recounted it. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z

The historian Joseph Ellis, writing in The New York Times Book Review, praised its combination of deep research, including “almost endless endnotes,” and “novelistic imagination that verges on cinematic.” Rick Atkinson Wins American History Book Prize 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Sueko said that she’s already talked to a historian at the National Museum of African American History and Culture about consulting with Davis for his play about black Wall Street. Washington is in line for a huge shipment of political theater 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

I talk so much about the bias of the historian, whether it's the person constructing the past as an archeologist or as a detective or as a biographer. "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

But you can’t be a historian of black America without being hopeful. ‘You can’t be a historian of black America without being hopeful,’ says Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

He declined to share the topics, but said, “I promise you history is nowhere near any of them. Every historian is throwing their books at me, and I’m doing none of those.” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Passion for Puerto Rico 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

William Robertson, a Scottish historian, said hairlessness provided evidence of a “feebleness of constitution”. Hair-erasing 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

A voracious reader, he became a self-educated art historian and a well-informed generalist whose knowledge awed his friends, including well-known artists. Rene Ricard, Art Arbiter With Wildean Wit, Dies at 67 2014-02-07T01:26:22Z

This year’s participants include Eleanor Herring, a historian who will discuss the history of lampposts, and Jason Ward, a jigsaw-puzzle aficionado who will assemble a puzzle at the conference throughout the day. At ‘Boring’ Event: Lamppost History and Puzzle-Assembling 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

I actually wrote a book on autism in history with an historian. Can children’s literature teach us about autism? 2012-12-17T12:45:00Z

“I said to a friend, there’s no way that someone who saw the show made that estimate,” said Joanne Freeman, a historian and Hamilton expert at Yale University. Alexander Hamilton Documents Fetch $2.6 Million at Auction 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

MON Local historians lead tour of more than 400 veterans interred dating back to the Civil War, 1 p.m. Veterans Day events in and around Seattle 2012-11-10T00:52:03Z

Tom Watt, former EastEnders star and now a respected broadcaster and football historian — well, for all things Arsenal anyway — is on the festival's selection committee and is thrilled by the footage he's been sent. Trailer trash 2011-08-06T23:06:18Z

The stories Prebble has prised from its crewmen, some named and some not, go beyond the Belgrano incident and its highly charged aftermath, and into waters previously uncharted by journalists and historians. Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z

The omission was partly an expression of editorial independence from a pair of young architectural historians. Consider the social-architectural context of LACMA's 1965 design 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

There are many military historians who believe that the intelligence that Eli Cohen gathered while in Syria actually won the Six-Day War for Israel. Sacha Baron Cohen Plays It Straight in ‘The Spy’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

“It was a bombshell,” said Andrew Scull, a historian of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

He also offers judgments of some Civil War leaders that may raise a few other historians' eyebrows. Four new books look at the Civil War, 150 years after it began 2011-04-20T21:27:04Z

Kathryn O’Regan, a feminist art historian who serves as the collective’s curator and chief writer, said that the exciting thing about the residency was taking the ideas of feminism and art into the community. A Virtual Gathering of Feminist Artists 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Public records show that 796 children died in the county Galway "mother-and-baby home" before its closure, according to a local historian. Irish Catholic Church says horrified by children's mass grave 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

This show is a must-see, not least for budding art historians seeking a thesis subject. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Aaron Nix-Gomez, a software engineer by trade and a wine historian by avocation, recently wrote extensively about Madeira’s impact on early U.S. history on his blog at Hogsheadwine.com. A toast to the Founding Fathers should include their favorite drink 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Film historians could probably cite the first female assassin's appearance in cinema with authority, but the average movie-loving Jill recognizes the spiritual grandmothers of "Gunpowder Milkshake." Netflix's "Gunpowder Milkshake" is another dumb fun lark about women who kill 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Co-owner Rick Rose is an official Worth Avenue tour guide and historian. What to Do in Palm Beach, Fla. 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

“I recommend anything by Alexander Etkind, who is a cultural historian of Russia. His latest book is called “Nature’s Evil” and it’s a cultural history of natural resources. What Is Driving Vladimir Putin? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

His watercolor of Belmont Mansion in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is set to appear in a book about that city’s park system by the Wesleyan University art historian Elizabeth Milroy. Antiques: Mystery at Drayton Hall: The Hunt for a Watercolor 2010-07-15T22:01:00Z

But in the end, I do see all those facts — all the very good work done by journalists and historians — I see them as the strings of the piano. How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

British and American soldiers ransacked the campus again and again during the Revolution, and it remained in a “deplorable state” through the 1790s, the historian Sean Wilentz writes in the catalog. Antiques: Princeton?s Faculty Room and Britain?s Rail Posters 2010-05-27T21:29:00Z

Hyman, a labor historian at Cornell, argues that the common explanation for what happened — mainly, that our current dispensation was foisted on us by technological and economic change — is self-serving and inadequate. How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Philanthropy can even act as an agent of resistance, the American historian of philanthropy Benjamin Soskis suggested, immediately after the election of Donald Trump. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s the last big subject in our history without a museum or a center,” said the historian David McCullough, who helped found the museum’s board of scholars. Revolution Museum Unveils Design by Robert A. M. Stern 2012-06-11T21:58:26Z

Paul Lavin, festivals manager at Chester Performs, said it will be "jam-packed" with talent from authors, presenters, comedians and historians. Literature festival reveals line-up 2013-08-11T17:18:58Z

The family knew the artwork had value — but without critical recognition, they made the painful decision to abandon it all, said Falk, the art historian. Dumpster find leads to rediscovery of artist Francis Hines 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Levin’s long-running blog, Civil War Memory, is on the front lines in a battle between established historians and a vocal minority who insist that most academics are biased liberals bent on slandering the South. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z

This meant it was entirely absent from cinematic and televisual culture until a fleeting image of a partially obscured plaque in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest in 1959, as historian Simon Willmetts revealed last year. Washington DC’s role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

A best-selling historian turns to fiction in this story of the Hundred Years’ War, which follows a troupe of mercenaries hired to help England invade France in the mid-1300s. 13 New Books Coming in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

In her book “Disembodying Women,” the medical historian Barbara Duden traces the public exposure of the fetus — and its rising cultural supremacy — over the latter half of the 20th century. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

But sometime between 1500 and 500 B.C., it became a staple food among the Vedic Aryans, pastoral people who raised buffalos and cows, said Pushpesh Pant, a historian and the author of “India: The Cookbook.” For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

They cleaned up the "Birthplace of the Cheeseburger" plaque, but note on their website that "this claim to fame is argued amongst historians and the real origins are unconfirmed for the record books." Was the cheeseburger actually invented in Louisville, Kentucky? 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

What historians, or anthropologists, or political scientists are interested in can overlap considerably with my interests, but the methodology, discipline, and long-term purpose are really different. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

“We have a city founded by the auspices and augury,” the Roman historian Livy wrote. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

The Art Thief is a romp of a thriller, but Charney is an art historian who thinks art theft offers fresh ways to think about the value and fascination of art. Is art theft an act of homage? 2013-01-31T16:34:09Z

“Economic historians will tell you that Natchez was the richest town per capita in the United States from about 1820 to 1860,” said Mimi Miller, executive director of the Historic Natchez Foundation. Knowing Natchez by Its Dead 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The British glass historian David Burton has created a 1,740-page set of books to analyze a seemingly narrow topic: antique bottles that bear raised markings identifying the original owners. Personalized Bottles, Ceramic Royals and Chinese Artifacts 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

However, many archaeologists, geographers and historians valued his academic writings and his company, and he was very generous in visiting fieldwork projects and attending seminars, where he gave good advice and encouragement. Mick Aston, archaeologist at the heart of Channel 4's Time Team 2013-06-25T16:35:38Z

WED Happy hour with exhibit curator and fashion historian Christine Palmer, lecture on fancy footwear, including vintage shoes not included in Sole Obsession exhibit, for ages 21 and older, 6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

While researching the play, the writer took on the role of oral historian and talked to his mother, aunts and uncles about their childhoods. Telling Liverpool's story on stage 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The house remained in the family until 2005, when it was purchased and painstakingly restored by Robert M. Rubin, a Wall Street financier turned architecture patron and cultural historian. The Virtual Splendor of Paris’s Glass House 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

“A justice’s place in history is often shaped by a combination of biography and actual judicial legacy,” said historian Jon Meacham. Brett Kavanaugh’s Washington: A smaller, colder world for a justice under a cloud 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

That makes this week’s release of a 90-minute film that shows them performing at the “No Nukes” benefit concerts in September 1979 significant for fans and music historians. ‘No Nukes’ footage bypasses Springsteen’s aversion to film 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

But Simms and Laderman side with historians who argue that Hitler’s decision was motivated by at least a semblance of strategic calculation, insofar as he hoped to pre-empt America’s inevitable entrance into the war. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The executive e-mails that induced shivers of schadenfreude were not only juicy gossip but also gave historians and journalists a candid glimpse of filmmaking as contentious creative endeavor and industrial practice. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mucha — along with local art restorers, conservators and historians — passionately opposes the city’s plan to take his grandfather’s masterwork “Slav Epic” on tour internationally for the first time. Czech Artist’s Grandson Sues to Block Loan of Works to Tokyo 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The great mistake that historians have made, I realized, was a misreading of the constitutional premises of the Republican antislavery agenda. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z

Like them, she is an ardent armchair naturalist, not to mention an ardent armchair theologian, cosmologist, ethicist, historian. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

“It would be a huge scandal in Poland, and internationally, if politicians changed the exhibition created by renowned historians from Poland and elsewhere,” he said. A Museum Becomes a Battlefield Over Poland’s History 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and Waterfront Seattle host artists, designers, historians and others to discuss the nature of play and how it could be used on Seattle’s developing waterfront. The Week Ahead: Dino Day at the Burke, Gerard Schwarz at Benaroya Hall 2014-02-26T22:37:34Z

After more than three decades of serious treatment by acclaimed historians and nonfiction writers, from Robin D. G. Kelley to Vivian Gornick, this subject is hardly one of life’s great mysteries. Can Communists Be Good Americans? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

An affecting and ambitious writer, as well as an exacting historian, Freeman tackles anti-Semitism, Jewish guilt and success. Review | In ‘House of Glass,’ Hadley Freeman unearth’s the World War II-era secrets of her family’s past 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Writer and historian Wallace Stegner famously called national parks America’s “best idea.” 5 reasons national parks are a great option for a low-budget getaway 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Marc Masurovsky, a historian and co-founder of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, asked whether the Swiss museum’s word would be final regarding works viewed with suspicion. Painting in Gurlitt Bequest Was Nazi Plunder, Museum Says 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

As the historian Eric Hobsbawm pointed out, most are invented, “responses to novel situations which take on the form of reference to old situations.” At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

But then it's a different time, notes University of Southern California pop culture historian Leo Braudy. Would Annette recognize today's Calif beach scene? 2013-04-10T10:46:03Z

She found herself sitting around conference tables with people like Ms. Tobias and the dance writer and historian David Vaughan. At Gibney, a New Curatorial Director Makes a Revolution 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The movie began when the director Steven Spielberg ran into the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin around the turn of the century, as he was helping put together the millennium celebration in Washington D.C. The Carpetbagger: From a Chance Meeting, 'Lincoln' Emerges 2013-01-29T22:35:33Z

The art historian Barbara E. White, who is working on a book, “Renoir’s Intimate Life Story,” wrote in an e-mail, “Keeping the letters together is important!” Antiques: Wharton’s Curtains Are Recreated; Renoir’s Letters Go on Sale 2013-07-04T23:49:28Z

An analytical method introduced by the film historian Barry Salt 40 years ago, cinemetrics extracts statistical data from movies to reveal their inner workings. Cinemetrics Extracts Statistical Data From Movies 2014-02-27T13:00:11Z

But since then, historians have moved on to consider other sectors of German society, in part because focusing on elites does not illuminate the character of modern right-wing populism. How Hitler Transformed a Democracy Into a Tyranny 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Buck’s daughter Christina points to the possible influence of art historian Jonathan Fineberg, emeritus professor at the University of Illinois who befriended her father when he was a visiting lecturer at UCI. A storied art collection shrouded in mystery will anchor new UC Irvine museum 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

It was during this period that Gordon Jones, the military historian and curator at the Atlanta History Center, first saw the cyclorama. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The work of Hogg and a slightly earlier collector named George Rogers Hall has been known among garden historians, but Del Tredici’s paper fleshes out the details of Hogg’s plant introductions. How America’s frenzy for Japanese plants brought beauties — and a mega-weed 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

But for the historian Jill Lepore, the body is also the first clue in a much bigger mystery: Who killed truth? Jill Lepore’s New Podcast Is a Murder Mystery: Who Killed Truth? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

The book’s discussion of the difficulties of penetrating layers of secrecy and Soviet myth in deconstructing the historiography of the AK-47 will be fascinating to many historians, less so to casual enthusiasts. Books of The Times: The Flesh and Blood Behind the AK-47 2010-12-02T22:57:00Z

For RoseLee Goldberg, an art historian and the founding director of Performa, the New York-based nonprofit dedicated to performing artists, all this just proves how desperately we still need live performance. Performa Keeps It Live and Real in the Age of TikTok 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z

“It was a sort of last gamble,” Michael Peppiatt, an art historian, biographer and friend of Bacon, said in a telephone interview. A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The historian and activist W. E. B. Du Bois had publicly called him “a credit to the race,” though there is little of an obvious race man in the image here. A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

A historian who has also studied computational mathematics, he believes passionately in the ideals of the census, but reveals in often head-smacking detail how badly it has failed society. Counting the Population Has Always Been Political 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Directed by Lana Wilson, the two-part feature chronicles Shields' tumultuous life and career through extensive archival footage along with interviews with Shields herself, her close friends and culture reporters and film historians. "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields": The 10 most heartbreaking revelations from Hulu’s new doc 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

It was his misfortune, says Catherine Fletcher in her gripping narrative, to be assassinated “first with a sword, then with a pen” by historians. A dark duke 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

James the dauntless critic often accompanies James the cultural historian, as seen in his assessment of Fersen’s writing. Review | How Capri became a hotbed of hedonism 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Soul food, the food historian Adrian Miller said, is “an immigrant cuisine and ultimately a national cuisine.” Two Chefs on Keeping Alive, and Redefining, Soul Food 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

The California historian Kevin Starr has written that in the 1940s, the city’s ethnic diversity was its “most salient feature.” Critic?s Notebook: San Francisco, the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z

Brown was part of the figurative movement that art historians recognize as a period during the mid-20th century when artists moved away from extreme abstractionism and included some realism in their portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. Painter William Theophilus Brown dies at age 92 2012-02-10T09:01:04Z

A catalog essay by the decorative arts historian Iris Moon notes that Percier persevered despite “the continual threat of bankruptcy, material scarcity, and the instabilities of war.” Picking Apart 18th-Century French Furniture to Detect Forgery 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Then we had an amazing historian and researcher on the film. Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the Power of Terrifying Legends 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

We are to approve of Mrs. Lee’s rejection of Ratcliffe and of her retirement from Washington while understanding that Ratcliffe has what the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. described as “the more powerful arguments.” Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

According to military historian Michael Howard, Jones’s “In Parenthesis,” might be “the most remarkable work of literature to emerge from either world war.” Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Bernstein, a historian at City College of New York who has written extensively about Jefferson, credited “Hamilton” with keeping the subject of slavery simmering underneath its jam-packed story. ‘Hamilton’ and History: Are They In Sync? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

When the historian Marquis James died in 1955 before he could embark on a planned biography of Washington, Mr. Harlan took up the task. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z

Savage’s cowriter was Joseph Carter, a journalist and art historian who, intriguingly, had published a study of Italian Renaissance painting. Jake LaMotta: a flawed character alchemised by Raging Bull into a mythical figure 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Many experts, including the Harvard art historian Jinah Kim, said that about 80 percent of Nepalese artifacts outside the country were likely to be illegal exports. Citizen Activists Lead the Hunt for Antiquities Looted From Nepal 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

This discrepancy led art historians to track down an equestrian portrait of Charles in a woodcut print dated 1567, and the print turned out to be the model Rubens had used for his ducal portrait. Art Review: ‘Dürer to de Kooning,’ at the Morgan Library 2012-10-11T23:02:45Z

Senior examiner, historian and dry wit Craig Lapper took critics through a brief history of the relationship between the two organisations. Trailer Trash 2013-07-13T23:05:49Z

"Open City" is the debut novel for Cole, a Nigerian writer, photographer and historian who lives in New York City, and it's a novel in the loosest sense. Teju Cole's 'Open City': walking the length, breadth and heart of post-9/11 New York 2011-02-26T00:07:07Z

But even more terrifying are the descriptions of actual combat from veterans and historians, among them the descriptions of what a German anti-tank weapon called a Panzerfaust did when it struck. Networks Salute Veterans Day With Contemporary Shows 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

He describes Fort as a crank, “a rogue historian of the early 20th century” and as a depressingly effective cultivator of paranoid conspiracy theories. Remembering the Time Meat Fell From the Sky 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Literary critics and historians – Knight's "vulgar empiricists" – come to Robin from wildly different angles. Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z

A novelist turned historian, she tells Bolívar's story wonderfully, though specialists have noted factual errors and anti-Spanish bias. Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z

As the French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze, better known for his soppy portraits and scenes with moralizing intentions, turned to antiquity in the 1760s, he selected a little-known episode recounted by the Roman historian Dion Cassius. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z

Not without reason do historians nowadays refer to the whole period from 1914 to 1945 as "the Thirty Years War of the 20th Century". Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z

That’s one of the reasons I like the podcast “The Rest Is History,” hosted by the British historians Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. Samuel West Takes Comfort in D&D, Mendelssohn and Ron Swanson’s Whiskey 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

Maxwell Hearn, a Met curator and historian of Chinese painting, remarks that they indulged in ancient images of reclusion in times of upheaval. Review: Groundbreaking Picture of China 2010-11-19T12:36:00Z

When the show ended in February, art historians and conservators were invited for a study day to evaluate the discovery. Is That a Real Caravaggio? It’s All in the Detail 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

What’s meant by “context” isn’t so much a broad, explanation of the event — such as one finds in the historian Timothy Snyder’s book “Bloodlands” — as a detailed visual narrative with a hole in the middle. ‘Babi Yar: Context’ Review: Unearthing Footage of a Nazi Massacre 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Gruber responded to that email, noting that the quote was selected by the museum’s “founding historians” as an example of the many endorsements of the postal system. Quote from slavery defender John C. Calhoun is removed as Postal Museum reopens 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

In 2012, Mike Cochran, a historian, found the Kodiak Queen rusting in a maritime junkyard in Road Town, the capital of the British Virgin Islands, on Tortola. New Caribbean Dive Site: A Ship That Survived Pearl Harbor 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Keith Elliot Greenberg, a wrestling historian and writer, said in a phone interview that he thought fans sometimes believed the Sheik’s character too much. The Iron Sheik, Villainous Hall of Fame Wrestler, Is Dead 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

For a historian to focus squarely on her subjects’ works would be a radical act in support of women’s achievement. ‘Broad Band’ Review: Mothers of Invention 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

From high-rise flats to the Carry On films, here are the never-had-it-so-good years brought vividly to life by a historian whose extraordinary appetite for research seems to know no bounds. Nonfiction for spring – preview 2012-12-30T00:05:19Z

Dipesh Chakrabarty, a historian at the University of Chicago, who has seen the book, said that since historians are not those who do the radiocarbon dating or the genetic analysis, they won’t be making discoveries. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

His is the kind of book that more academic historians sometimes disparage as paddling in a genre that’s been described as, “read 10 books, write an 11th.” Books of The Times: Simon Schama’s ‘The Story of the Jews’ 2014-03-10T20:50:31Z

Trail mix: A Delaware historian compiled the points of interest for the eight-year-old trail, which follows the First State’s long and winding journey from the early 1600s to modern times. Satisfy your food, beverage or cultural craving on a Mid-Atlantic trail 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

As dance historian Janice Ross writes in her illuminating biography, “Like a Bomb Going Off ,” a grateful Plisetskaya praised him as a “daring master who rejects even the least conspicuous clichés in art.” ‘Like a Bomb Going Off,’ by Janice Ross 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

He died Nov. 12 at home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after years of heart disease, said Libby Lumpkin, an art historian who was married to him. Art critic Dave Hickey, known for book ‘Air Guitar’, dies 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

In fact, the hip-hop artist and historian Aly Ndiaye, better known by his stage name, Webster, did consult on the production. Protests Shutter a Show That Cast White Singers as Black Slaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

“I’m not the art historian, I’m not the art genius, but I know markets,” he said. Ernie Barnes’s ‘Sugar Shack’ Painting Brings Big Price at Auction 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

As a historian, I understand the countless reasons why women, particularly African-American women, might not share their experiences of sexual violence. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Traditional historians and the more informal cultural anthropologists will see themselves being confronted with a methodology few of them use and challenged to defend their impressionistic hypotheses against his lab-based results. Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Henry Chalfant, the producer and graffiti historian, will appear after the 9:30 p.m. screening along with “special guests” — would the break-dancing phenomenon Crazy Legs be too much to hope for? Movie Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

This, however, hasn’t kept many novelists and historians from trying. “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z

Do people other than historians have most and least favorite centuries? The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

I tend to think, being a historian, that triumph over racial discrimination or racial bias isn’t like, one person gets through and then the floodgates open and everyone goes in after them. ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

In both parts of this production, which opened Sunday night at Playwrights Horizons, Mr. Norris is examining his subjects through the same merciless telescope, with a historian’s distance and an ethnographer’s detachment. Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z

To appease critics and burnish its academic credentials, the mob museum brought in historians, law enforcement officials and acclaimed museum leaders to help build its collection. Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions 2011-03-30T09:46:06Z

Salon spoke to Eric Rauchway, a historian at the University of California at Davis and the author of the book “Blessed Among Nations,” which looks at what makes the U.S. different from other countries. What Trump’s slick catchphrase really means: “Make America great again” is just code for “get the best deals” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Brown’s vivid biography captures the scion of an early American dynasty warts and all, arguing this sour but gifted man was the pre-eminent historian of America’s turbulent 19th century. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Finally, there comes the soft Southern accent of David Sansing, Mississippi’s preeminent historian, now professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Brown’s analysis of key works is illuminating, but his claim that Henry was “our finest letter writer, our outstanding 19th-century historian,” remains open for debate. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

With that in mind, we took some Stonewall experts and historians, as well as other members of the community, to a first-night screening in New York. Gay-rights activists give their verdict on Stonewall: 'This film is no credit to the history it purports to portray' 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

In addition to paintings by Herb Kāne, an artist and historian whose work focuses on Hawaiian history and seafaring traditions, there are traditional crafts on display. Can Responsible Travel to Hawaii Be Fun? We Gave It a Try. 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

His colleagues helped finish what historians agree was a herculean task. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

Rival historian Robert Service, whose work on the history of communism Figes described as "awful" in the Amazon posts, said he and his wife had been through hell. Historian Orlando Figes admits posting Amazon reviews that trashed rivals 2010-04-23T21:26:00Z

Alford is a professional historian, with an excellent command of the manuscript sources, and he tells an exciting story. The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford – review 2012-08-17T21:55:05Z

"After two decades of scandal, I think it's the royal family recognizing that to be normal is to their advantage," said Deborah Cohen, a historian at Northwestern University in Chicago who specializes in modern Britain. UK royal bride's virginity no longer an issue 2011-04-08T11:18:08Z

Some art historians think the children’s activities double as little allegories, each with a moral message. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Caroline Kennedy will serve as editor and write an introduction for the book, currently untitled, and a historian, who is yet to be determined, will provide annotation. Sources: Jackie Kennedy interviews to be published 2010-04-13T01:06:00Z

What struck Judith Clark, the art historian who curated the exhibition, was that after founding the label, Ms. Aghion remained so open to the work of others. At Chloé, Clare Waight Keller Pushes Femininity Forward, but It’s More Modern 2012-10-17T23:23:02Z

Organized by the art historian Jacquelyn Baas for the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, where it made its debut last spring, the exhibition displays more than 100 objects, documents, ephemera and films. Art Review: ?Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life? - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z

Yet Gates writes here as a historian, and the historian can chronicle progress, assess its origins and commemorate its course while noting its incompleteness. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

To historians it’s a centuries-long occupation of East African soil by seafaring merchants and middlemen from foreign lands. Swahili, the Pulse of Life at the Crossroads 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The ballooning number of Confederate statues around the turn of the 20th century, some historians argue, was a reflection of the changing narrative of the Civil War. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Gornick’s also a crucial feminist thinker, literary critic, and something of an oral historian. Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“I don’t know if there’s a subconscious desire to appeal across the aisle,” says Andrew Hager, historian of the online Presidential Pet Museum. In this vicious world, guess who became best friends? Cats and dogs. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

She’s often described as a writer, historian and activist, but you could equally think of her as a poet of the ineffable. Rebecca Solnit tries to answer 'The Mother of All Questions' 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

For an art historian who made his name with a spectacular attribution, Penny is less concerned with who-painted-what than might be imagined. Young British Artists versus old masters 2012-06-01T21:55:05Z

It may have been rare but it was likely, say historians of the antebellum South where some wealthy Jewish clans kept slaves. A thought-provoking ‘Whipping Man’ at Taproot 2013-04-04T22:43:14Z

Lauck’s last chapter looks at how historians have studied the heartland. How the Midwest went from the idealized to the derided 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

It includes a interactive video display in which questions about Hamilton are answered by an avatar speaking Hamilton’s own words, along with additional commentary by Mr. Laise and the historian Joanne B. Freeman. Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z

Yale historian Matthew Frye Jacobson told the Times, in a story that was otherwise a whitewash of Lukianoff’s FIRE, that the organization’s spin and the media coverage were “a complete misconstruction of what happened.” The truth about the "campus free speech" crusade and its myths that won't die 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

One recent Friday, Jack Pfeifer, the Armory’s unofficial historian and the director of college track meets, took me around the building. Along a Fast Track, a Pause for Nostalgia 2011-03-24T21:43:12Z

“Although pageant officials and contestants emphasize scholarships, talents and platform issues and repackage the swimsuit competition as the ‘lifestyle and fitness’ category, their rhetoric rings hollow,” Blain Roberts, a historian, wrote in 2013. Miss Teen USA Pageant Dumps the Swimsuit 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Art has the permission to go where scientists, historians, cultural commentators and journalists cannot. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

This novel features a modern-day historian obsessed with the sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her possibly traumatic past. New & Noteworthy, From the Science of Life to Annie Oakley 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

On the review DVD, the diplomatic historian Walter LaFeber says, “He’s going to go down in history as the person who was most important in ending the cold war.” Television Review: PBS Documentary About Former Secretary of State 2010-07-11T22:03:00Z

Who is more qualified to discuss the past — the witness or the historian? He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

She started calling the office of the official Senate historian. A picture of persistence in honoring a Spanish hero of the Revolutionary War

No award was given, and the two jurors — respected drama critics and theater historians — resigned in protest. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

SUN Actress/historian in costume talks about Celtic life in Britain at the time of the Roman invasion, 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

To future historians, such films as The Assistant or Never Rarely Sometimes Always could be this image’s 21st-century equivalents. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

The idea of an unbridgeable gap between the academic and the public historian is becoming less and less plausible. 'From PhD to BBC': are academic historians too hungry for fame? 2012-07-12T16:38:00Z

The letter, signed by a Who's Who of celebrities, many of them English, was organised by Dan Snow and Tom Holland, well-known TV historians in Britain. Jagger, Hawking join big celebrity push to keep Scotland in the UK 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The historian and television presenter Dan Snow, who is supporting the appeal, described the cliffs as "am amazing part of our national story". National Trust launched appeal to buy white cliffs of Dover's 'missing link' 2012-06-26T23:06:01Z

In a short film made for the exhibition, there is a curiously grudging aspect to the credit some contemporary writers and historians are prepared to grant America as a place of refuge. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z

“And why should they be?” said Paul Shaw, a type historian who lives in Manhattan. These People Really Care About Fonts 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Some local historians think the Jersey Shore borough got its name because some of its original settlers in the early 1800s were from the Jersey shore, Speicher said. Snooki and JWoww wanted in Jersey Shore ... Pa. 2012-02-02T21:22:11Z

Robert Dance, a photography historian and collector in New York, wants only the source material, the original prints that the photographers deemed worthy of leaving the darkroom. Antiques: Ralph Esmerian?s Collection Goes Up for Auction 2011-09-22T20:45:55Z

But to art historians, Cubism is the gateway to Modern art. Met Founds Research Institute Centered on Lauder’s Cubist Gift 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

No historian could say a thing like that. Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death’ hits history around like a tennis ball 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

It was a series in active dialogue with what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the “agrarian myth”: the notion that innocence and decency and hard work belonged to the hinterlands. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

In each corner of the country she seeks to unveil her ancestors’ secrets with the help of local historians and activists, who in turn share their own. Morgan Jerkins Heads Down South in Search of Her Black Identity 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

“In many of the Piero exhibitions in Italy, art historians have focused on his work in Florence and Urbino,” said Mr. Silver, an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. Inside Art: Piero Planned for the Frick; Yves Klein and Picasso for Sale 2012-09-27T22:29:03Z

Nebraska stars Will Forte and June Squibb will reunite on screen as well, with Forte playing a tennis historian. Andy Samberg and Kit Harington to Team Up In HBO's Wimbledon Mockumentary 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

It depends as well on the work of dedicated and imaginative historians like Ulrich, who allow us access to lost worlds. How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

But, as the distinguished art historian and Hals scholar Seymour Slive once wrote, “Apparently Hals only felt inspired to paint when he was confronted by a fellow human being.” Art Review: Faces Still Alive, Centuries Later 2011-07-28T22:44:45Z

“That is the Olusoga effect,” said Beard, who is another one of Britain’s best-known historians. David Olusoga Wants Britain to Face Its Past. All of It. 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Dr. Saffle and his brother Michael Saffle, a music historian at Virginia Tech, wrote a survey of the literature regarding the medical histories of prominent composers. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

More than 50 years ago, a bunch of dissident Oxbridge-educated academic historians changed the way the British saw culture. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z

“I think any journalist and any historian has to deal with the public record that the government puts out there,” he said. His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

But murder has always sold, and McDade was one of the great historians of its salesmen. The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Of course it’s social,” said Mac Griswold, a cultural landscape historian and part-time East End resident. Make Mine the Burlap Wrap 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

When she was 18, she met and married the historian, art critic and theater director Louis Viardot, 21 years her senior. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Charlotte's daughter, Rose, is employed by a very posh historian obsessed with his memoirs. 'How It All Began': one mugging, many outcomes 2012-01-04T22:59:04Z

The commentators — the riders themselves, historians, politicians, civil rights leaders — have mostly been chosen for an uncanny ability to convey the tension in a present-tense reconstruction. Television Review: Voices From the Buses on the Road to Civil Rights 2011-05-15T22:04:53Z

“You no longer had a right to have views on what your body required: what is required is a scientific fact,” says Rebecca Earle, a food historian at the University of Warwick. What We Eat During a Plague 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Garfield does not pretend to be a serious historian. Books of The Times: ‘On the Map’ by Simon Garfield 2012-12-18T23:14:13Z

“For the first time, people in China are hearing about Palm Beach,” says historian Rick Rose, author of “Palm Beach: The Essential Guide to America’s Legendary Resort Town.” Palm Beach used to be a nice town for billionaires. Then Trump came along. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

She is a historian of photography, not a photographer. Revisiting a Midcentury Haven for Cross-Dressing Men 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

It’s been a busy week for famed historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the foremost scholars on black history and the director of the W.E.B. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z

However many art historians argue otherwise, it is always going to look like a painted suicide note. Our memories of Mike Kelley's art will be shaped by the manner of his death 2012-05-16T15:49:27Z

The book chronicles Mr. Robinson’s career as comic-book artist and writer, comics historian and editorial cartoonist. The Joker in the Deck: Birth of a Supervillain 2010-10-04T21:05:00Z

“Many fans and music historians believe that, had he been recording in the ’50s, he might have become a rockabilly legend,” the music journalist Mark McStea wrote in Guitar Player magazine last year. Robert Gordon, Punk Rocker Turned Rockabilly Revivalist, Dies at 75 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

One historian reads the standing figures as allegorical embodiments of Africa and America. We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

This vulnerability is essential reason viewers root for the character, according to Julie Taddeo, a historian who focuses on British television. Saying Goodbye to Tommy Shelby, a Traumatized TV Antihero 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

These people, now remembered mostly only by historians, offer riveting accounts of adventure, intrigue, suspense and unimaginable violence. 'The First Frontier': the bloody centuries before America's revolution 2012-02-15T22:17:06Z

For those who aren’t historians, it’s a reference to the 1778 treaty between the United States and France, recognizing the former as an independent country and encouraging trade between the two nations. Review | At two hotel restaurants, there’s room for improvement 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Holocaust deniers will claim that legitimate historians misinterpret the purpose or function of an architectural space, that an underground gas chamber was, for example, just an air raid shelter. Perspective | Will our migrant detention cages be studied in tomorrow’s museums? 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Savoy, an art historian, recently resigned as an adviser to the Humboldt Forum, a new museum in Berlin; she said it wasn’t taking issues of provenance seriously enough. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Some art historians have taken extraordinary measures to work around the French system, where descendants complain that they remain at the mercy of bureaucrats who can unilaterally decide whether to allow access or not. Despite Pledge, France Lags in Hunt for Looted Art 2013-08-28T22:15:50Z

One of them, a historian on the archives staff who was writing a book on the de Carvajal family, accused a rival of the theft. A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

She was the only woman and the only African-American among Dewey’s hires, brought in, according to one historian, for “her command of Harlem pool halls as well as Albany committee rooms.” The Real-Life Heroine Who Inspired a Character on ‘Boardwalk Empire’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The documentary tries to get to the heart of West with observations from biographers, historians, friends, directors, her former manager and journalists. PBS invites you to come up sometime and see a Mae West doc 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

When she started out, in the late 1940s, no one called Ms. Weiss and her cohort “humanists”; that term came later, when historians in the 1970s began to elevate their work to canonical status. Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

“The book does not claim to be an academic historical piece of nonfiction, I’ll leave that to the academics and historians,” she wrote in an email. ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and the History in Historical Fiction 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Conservators are also exploring the possibility of uploading ownership records to the blockchain, which could help art historians researching the collection. Even as NFTs Plummet, Digital Artists Find Museums Are Calling 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harari, an Israeli historian and philosopher, rose to prominence with the English translation of his 2014 best seller, “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” You Can Read Yuval Noah Harari’s Book in Russian, Except for the Parts About Russia 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

The Quotable Robert Hughes It often seemed as if Robert Hughes, the critic and historian who died Monday at 74, never wrote a bad sentence. ArtsBeat: The Quotable Robert Hughes 2012-08-07T18:03:12Z

He likens Johnson, a politician who continues to captivate historians, to King Lear. ‘Breaking Bad’ star adds luster to Seattle writer’s Broadway play 2014-03-10T20:36:00Z

She told the historian JFK said: "Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to this country if Lyndon were president?" Book: Kennedy scorned idea of Johnson as president 2011-09-08T22:36:10Z

Ms. Scott’s heyday lasted barely a decade, and film historians say it never matched the Bacall magic or the Lake sensuality. Lizabeth Scott, Film Noir Siren, Dies at 92 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Are the nonfiction excerpts — from presidential historians, Lincoln biographers, Civil War chroniclers — real or fake? Colson Whitehead on George Saunders’s Novel About Lincoln and Lost Souls 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

There has been a shift in “the mental horizons” of the age, to borrow a phrase from the French historian Lucien Febvre. For the First Time Ever, I’m Optimistic About Women in the Movie World 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Pagels is one of the very few historians equipped to address that topic for readers at all levels of familiarity with things Biblical. 'Revelations': a Biblical road map for the world's end 2012-04-04T20:29:08Z

As Oreskes, a historian of science, reports, when she actually looked at all the papers written on the subject by climate scientists, there was near unanimity on the seriousness of the problem. 'Merchants of Doubt' shows how public opinion is manipulated 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Special events: Each day of the grand opening will focus on one of the first 13 states, with historians, musical groups and officials from that state. New museum in Virginia explores other heroes of the Revolutionary War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

The historian David Brion Davis was given a lifetime achievement award. Marlon James Among Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

As historian Rebecca Beatrice Brooks explains, "Many of the accused witches were outspoken women, Quakers, slaves, colonists with criminal backgrounds and/or prior witchcraft accusations or colonists who criticized the witch trials." Season of the witch: How the word, and the concept, made a big 2018 comeback 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

James Robenalt, a lawyer and historian, used it for his 2009 book, "The Harding Affair," and some of the letters are on his website. Harding letters reveal steamy side of 29th U.S. president 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

After hunting for years, divers discovered the wreck in 1971, along with over 19,000 artefacts and the bones of 179 of its crew, providing historians with an insight into Tudor life at sea. 500 year-old skull goes online in 3D as part of Mary Rose project 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Indiana Jones is, to a considerable extent, the reason I became a historian. Why I'd like to be … Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

According to historian William Seale, in the early days that “peep” was literal: Tourists entering the north side of the building could look down directly into the kitchen. In the White House kitchen, hiding in plain sight

Carter promptly contacted Beatles authorities including biographer Mark Lewisohn and historians Bruce Spizer and Martin Lewis, none of whom were aware of any documentation on the recording. The mysterious 'train song' from the Beatles' 'A Hard Day's Night' 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

In her new book Conflict Is Not Abuse, novelist and Aids historian Sarah Schulman writes about how the transmission of HIV to millions worldwide is a normative human experience unworthy of criminalization or stigma. Why did it take so long for science to debunk the Aids 'Patient Zero'? | Steven W Thrasher 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Performance Now,” a traveling exhibition curated by the veteran art historian Roselee Goldberg, will remain at Delaware through Sept. 21. Censured Delaware Art Museum Plans to Divest More Works 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Recounting “what actually happened” is no simple matter, as any historian will tell you. Building a Better Colonial Williamsburg 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Producer and historian Laurence Cotton gives a talk on the PBS film “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America,” 2 p.m. Beatles program, Billy Dee Williams appearance, cat fest 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Take a tour through Ybor City’s cigar history with author, historian and master cigar roller Wally Reyes. For Ybor City in Florida, a historic cigar town faces a cloudy future 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

“He described the project as new architecture, never before seen,” said Martina Frank, an historian of architecture who wrote a monograph about Longhena. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Museums are incredibly good anchors for main street revitalization,” said John Conway, 69, the county’s official historian, who compared the town’s Broadway to a smile that has lost its attractiveness. Can a New Art Space Refresh a Tired Downtown? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Martin Heidegger was recorded to have laughed only once, according to the historian Paul Johnson. The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

This book might aspire to be like Sam Wasson’s enchanting “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.,” a close look at the making of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and a short, sweet groundbreaker for Hollywood historians. When Marilyn Took Manhattan 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Nine of Wu’s small, uncommon abstract paintings, all undated, are the principal reason to see this showcase of three Chinese artists, curated by Gao Minglu, the eminent Chinese art historian. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

This time it's the turn of historian David Starkey to be interrogated by professor Laurie Taylor. The Delicious Miss Dahl 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z

They were replaced by a middle class — professionals, government bureaucrats, business owners, said Enrique Krauze, a prominent Mexican historian and writer. Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Both Aunt Hager and Sister Johnson tend to pronounce the word “idea” as “idee,” a subtle nod to what the historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. calls “the linguistic legacy of slavery.” How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Blain, a historian, adroitly connects Hamer’s civil-rights-era activism to today’s fights against police brutality, sexism and poverty, revealing Hamer to have been a farsighted force for change, whose vision and tactics endure. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Washington, D.C., in August isn’t the most comfortable place to be,” says Lindsay Chervinsky, a historian at the White House Historical Association. Summertime often means vacations — even for the president 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

“When the historians find us we’ll be in our homes Plugged into our hubs Skin and bones A frozen smile on every face.” Father John Misty: The End Is Near, Sing All About It 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Von Tunzelmann, a British historian, explores this larger theme through case studies of heroic “Great Man” statues that societies have erected — and eventually torn down. The Controversy Over Statues and How We Commemorate the Past 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

This selection, programmed by the writer and film historian Farran Smith Nehme, showcases the abundance of actresses whose singular presences helped stake out complex understandings of womanhood in unexpectedly modern ways. These Talkies Star Complicated Women You Might Well Recognize 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Jessica Luther is a historian, graduate student, educator, reproductive rights activist, staff writer at Rant Sports, and a freelance writer/blogger. The Olympics’ delicate gender politics 2012-08-11T16:00:00Z

Rouse, a historian, highlights the often unrecognized queer history of the women’s suffrage movement and argues that queer suffragists challenged traditional notions of family, space and death both subtly and radically. Newly Published, From Palestinian Poetry to Stories on Reproductive Freedom 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The late historian and critic Tony Judt once described Europe before the First World War as “an intricate, interwoven tapestry of overlapping languages, religions, communities and nations.” Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

“It is not by chance that historians speak of a ‘lost generation.’ ” Books of The Times: A Call for the Commonweal: Tony Judt?s ?Ill Fares the Land? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z

I’m not going to be a Black version of a white male scholarly art historian. A Conversation With the Women Who Curate New York’s Museums 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

"Keynes's view came over very strongly in the play. I didn't find it very persuasive and it's now much argued about by historians." Versailles play not a history lesson 2014-02-28T12:16:20Z

But Sarah Cohen, an art historian at the University at Albany whose research focuses on artistic representations of animals, questioned why the Guggenheim included the works at all. Artists Blast Guggenheim for Pulling Works Involving Animals 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

“It takes a lot of bucks to stay well,” says University of Michigan medical historian and physician Howard Markel. Wellness is an industry, a journey and now a $5,000-a-year club 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Hayden and film historian Jacqueline Stewart will discuss the new selections in a television special on Turner Classic Movies on Friday at 8 p.m. ‘Return of Jedi,’ ‘Selena’ added to National Film Registry 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

So much of the commentary on Trump by your fellow historians concerned analogies: Is Trump a new Hitler? Yes, He Thought Trump Would Win. No, He Didn’t Use Hard Data. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Several years ago, an amateur historian discovered a death certificate showing that Gherardini was buried at a convent in central Florence. ArtsBeat: A Plan to Dig Up the Bones of a Suspected Mona Lisa Model 2011-04-05T17:56:16Z

“She was the boldest Mormon feminist historian of the late 20th century,” Joanna Brooks, a historian at San Diego State University, said in a phone interview. Linda King Newell, Feminist Scholar of Mormon History, Dies at 82 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

“This is a treasure trove for whole new generations of art historians,” Stebich, the director, said. Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

Today's historians use the most up-to-date science and technology to tell stories you'll want to hear. Come Home to Virginia 2010-05-05T15:28:00Z

Mary Street Alinder, a photographic historian and Adams’s former assistant, has written a lively, minutely researched tribute to the group’s achievements. Hotshots 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

C. Ward, a historian at the National Portrait Gallery, and Jonathan D. Katz, director of the doctoral program in visual studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Art Review: Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History 2010-12-10T23:38:00Z

This fall, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles will screen “Troublemakers,” a new documentary by art historian James Crump that includes a focus on Heizer. Pioneer artist Michael Heizer comes to New York, brings $2 million rocks 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Wills, the historian, reminds us in his essay that Emperor Nero was directly responsible for the suicides of Martial’s fellow writers Seneca and Lucan. | A History of Gossip 2010-12-07T16:00:00Z

We've always known it wasn't a historically accurate depiction: Shakespeare was a dramatist, not a historian. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z

Mary Thorp, a historian in Rock Cave, W.Va, is building up mounds of data for her Harry Bertoia Research Project. Antiques: Retrospectives for Harry Bertoia’s Grids and Gongs 2013-07-11T21:43:46Z

A few days after our first meeting, I met Scaraffia for dinner on her porch, along with her husband, who is also a historian, and a translator. Lucetta Scaraffia Is Trying to Fight Catholic Patriarchy from the Inside 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

The “politics of respectability,” a term coined by the historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, confined black women to a strict code of conduct and proper behavior. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

She is a historian and author of the widely-praised and provocative book "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South." Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Some studies estimate the economic impact at more than $500 million, said Arthur Hardy, a Mardi Gras historian. For Mardi Gras float makers, next year is here 2012-02-20T12:47:14Z

Featured speakers will include historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Bridget Jones" novelist Helen Fielding and a star among teens, "Divergent" author Veronica Roth. Book industry gathers for annual convention 2013-05-28T12:27:09Z

“You can consider it verified,” declares Vince Houghton, the International Spy Museum’s historian and curator, about the rumor. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

But many in his class revered him and became leading historians themselves, including such Pulitzer winners as Gordon Wood and Jack Rakove. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Some historians argue that the immigrant story retraces this plot line and that, ultimately, all Americans struggle in some way to recapitulate this essential Franklin narrative. ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z

The results complemented data mining that Mr. Cohen and his colleague Fred Gibbs, a historian of medicine at George Mason, conducted on billions of words published in 19th century books and digitized by Google. As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey 2011-08-17T22:30:15Z

Avocado toast is the signature dish of this style, and many food historians believe that Bills in Sydney, which opened in 1993, was the first restaurant to serve it. The Art of the Australian Breakfast 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Bolden was institutionalized in 1907 and died in 1931 without leaving behind a single recorded note of music, but is considered by many historians as an integral figure in the creation of jazz. Pritzker's 1st is silent film with live music 2010-08-27T13:19:00Z

Scientists and art historians in Belgium on Wednesday finished the first restoration stage of one of the most important pieces of early Renaissance art: the Van Eyck brothers' altarpiece in Ghent. Flemish altarpiece masterwork part-restored to former glory 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Yan-Kit So was a very clever, serious historian, and a sort of mentor to me when I first started writing about food. There is no “Chinese cuisine” 2012-12-03T12:45:00Z

A Dutch historian aims to prove that human beings are, by their nature, good. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

In early April, Goldsmith was unexpectedly contacted by an art historian from a museum in Oldenburg — the city in northwest Germany where his grandparents once lived and where his father was born. The Nazis took a precious kettle from a Jewish couple. Some 86 years later, their grandson in Maryland got it back. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Later the Picasso inheritance grew knottier, with feminist historians and scholars of African and Oceanic art revealing the oversights and injuries of his omnivorous visual appetite. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

Nigeria’s artists, historians, activists and royals have been clamoring for decades to get the pieces back. Smithsonian Moves Toward Returning Benin Bronzes 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The food historian Michael W. Twitty has described the chef’s work as “culinary justice.” The Face of Houston’s Diverse Dining Scene Is a White Guy From Nebraska 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

This book is a tour around some of the most important and dangerous frontlines of what many historians now call the fourth world war. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z

This proved to be a contentious point, as former LBJ aides and historians emerged to refute her narrative. Why is Lyndon B Johnson suddenly prevalent in pop culture? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The sprawling museum, founded by the historian Stephen E. Ambrose as the National D-Day Museum, is thriving now. New Victory for World War II PT Boat: Restored and Museum-Ready 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Despite its importance, Mr. Oliver’s work on the blues was a sideline to his principal occupation, as an architectural historian. Paul Oliver, Pre-eminent Authority on the Blues, Dies at 90 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk An eloquent cultural historian of Ireland traces the quixotic character of the Irish revolution. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Elizabeth Kendall is a dance historian, whose books include “Where She Danced” and “Balanchine and the Lost Muse.” Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

You have been called the “dean of Cold War historians.” John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Last summer, local historian Paul Furness led us on a walk of the city highlighting histories of which most of us and our neighbours were pretty ignorant. A cosy duvet city - why York needs alternative histories 2013-01-16T07:00:00Z

This landmark acquisition emphasized Mr. Lee’s art historian gravitas and his ability to work with the board to keep the museum moving forward. Texas Monthly: The Kimbell: A Small Art Museum With a Major Presence 2012-10-07T04:27:04Z

The 64-year-old art historian, who took over as director in 2008, said he was retiring to spend more time with "family, friends and books". National Gallery director to retire 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The Grimm Brothers, he explains, were oral historians, collecting folk tales and getting them down on paper before the coming industrial revolution destoryed the folk culture that produced them. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z

But bold Sister Mary Francis Clare, says historian Stanley Edward Goddard, had an “overwhelming desire to allow women to be educated on a similar footing to men.” On Ireland’s southwest coast, history-rich Kenmare is the gateway to County Kerry 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Butterfield was, of course, not the only intellectual to get this wrong and not the only historian to be hopelessly misled by relying too much on the past to make sense of the present. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:05Z

Charlottesville, Va., New York and Houston, meeting the chefs, writers, historians and farmers who hold these food traditions today. The Profound Significance of ‘High on the Hog’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Serfilippi’s forceful case has caught the eye of historians, particularly those who have questioned what they see as his inflated antislavery credentials. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

“We weren’t wrote about or talked about, but we were involved in the process of building the country,” says Stanley Madison, 66, a farmer and historian of Lyles Station. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Dialogue Insert enema joke here – so to speak … Matthew Broderick freshens up Once this historian dined with, among others, a five-year-old child. The Road to Wellville: a Kellogg's biopic with snap, crackle and crock 2010-07-29T16:49:00Z

Yet for a spell in the late 20th century, some commentators and a few historians imagined that this dark stain on our democracy would quickly fade away. Was Richard Nixon a Tragic Hero? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Nizan Shaked, an art historian and museum and curatorial studies professor at Long Beach State, frequently looks at the entanglements between public museums and the commercial sphere. L.A.'s Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is out to upend the definition of a gallery 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Once Till-Mobley became a public school teacher on the South Side of Chicago, she encouraged her students to achieve their goals by becoming astute historians and critical thinkers. With the movie ‘Till,’ Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest to educate the world about her son’s lynching march 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Gregory, a well respected author and historian, is considered by many to be the doyenne of the historical novel. The White Queen: Women in history rediscovered 2013-06-12T08:21:51Z

Renowned culinary historian Michael W. Twitty traces the history of Southern food from soul food to barbecue. Washington Post bestsellers: August 13, 2017 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

How sacrifice of that kind played into the turmoil of revolutionary politics back in Ireland, and in the fraught formation of the Irish Free State, is something into which historians will doubtless continue to delve. Why Do We Remember Gallipoli? 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

It did not, by its nature, leave those traces in the written record that historians need to understand it. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

He is calmly hilarious about how the historian Barbara W. Tuchman — never the most felicitous writer — urged him to lobby for her to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In ‘Avid Reader,’ a Celebrated Editor as Shepherd and Alchemist 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

It was not until the 1920s, when the German art historian Erwin Panofsky labeled the image Schmerzensmann — Man of Sorrows — that the connection between the phrase and the portrayal of Jesus became standard. Art Review: The Enduring Power of an Icon 2011-03-31T21:48:50Z

Showy socks hark back to the 1700s, when people wore them embroidered or in outlandish colors, fashion historians say. In Silicon Valley, Socks Make the Tech Entrepreneur 2012-02-03T22:33:48Z

Speaking of his elegant, aggressive improvising on that record, the bassist Andy Gonzalez told the historian Richard Davies that if music students “study that solo, they will know what the ‘swing’ of son is.” Chocolate Armenteros, Trumpeter in Afro-Cuban Tradition, Dies at 87 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Karen Robinson Eric Hobsbawm was the best-known and most celebrated historian of the 20th century, not just in Britain but all over the world. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century – review 2013-03-20T11:59:01Z

The slow drift from the audience, film historians say, is almost certainly rooted in the Academy’s admissions process, which leans heavily toward the inclusion of each year’s nominees. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

The historian Martha S. Jones has a nose for writing deeply researched histories that land in the middle of the rough and tumble of our national politics — sometimes deliberately, sometimes not. Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Therese Nelson, a food historian who attended, said she admired Ms. Martin for making a Caribbean meal without the stereotypical dishes that tourists expect. Pop-Up Dinners That Share a Culture, Course by Course 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Some historians note that Dolly Madison suggested the idea of a public egg roll in the early 1800s, and the first family hosted informal egg rolls dating back to the time of Abraham Lincoln. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

She brought a copy of the slave records, and arranged for Paulette Perry, 77, a cousin of Mr. Mosley’s who is something of a family historian, to join them. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

I talked, when I was doing this story, to quite a lot of Jewish historians. Julian Fellowes on Twists in the ‘Downton Abbey’ Season Finale 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Scholarship on the topic all but dried up, as historians more generally emphasized the agency of African-Americans in claiming their own freedom. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

The netsuke at first belonged to Charles Ephrussi, an art historian who settled in Paris and spent part of his inheritance on paintings by his friends Degas and Renoir. Antiques: 264 Carvings Tell History of Edmund de Waal?s Family 2010-08-12T21:10:00Z

Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

But the mill soon fell into disuse, probably because newer steam models rendered it obsolete, a historian said. In Transit Blog: A Windmill Comes to Life in Israel 2012-09-07T21:10:42Z

His father was a historian forged in Chicano and Native American political movements, and who taught in community colleges so as to reach black and brown students directly. Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

In developing the miniseries, the producers consulted with historians to be as accurate as possible. History's 'Sons of Liberty' foment the American Revolution 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

But she said that it was her duty as a historian to publish the full record, rather than perpetuate the selective silence around possible crimes by law enforcement officers. Prying Loose the Long-Kept Secrets of Attica 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

"They're accounts of events at pivotal moments of history," explains TV historian Lucy Moore. Classic tales 2010-04-07T08:34:00Z

Unlike many popular historians, Ms. Schiff deliberately parachutes into areas she knows little about for each book. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think anyone’s even going to read it. Except perhaps historians. Do you know, it’s longer than all the Harry Potter books put together?” What George Clooney, Lupita Nyong’o, Elton John and Eddie the Eagle taught us in 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Beginning last spring, curators and oral historians from the archives conducted Zoom interviews with 85 artists to create the “Pandemic Oral History Project.” Smithsonian Archives of American Art Gathers an Oral History of 2020 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

“He wanted to throw it all away. But as a historian, I understood the importance of papers.” Brown University Acquires the Papers of Mumia Abu-Jamal 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

IN 1892, Baron de Coubertin, a French educator and historian, called for the restoration of the Olympic games, hoping that they would promote peace and also help achieve his decidedly conservative political aims. Fanfare 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The Aviation Area’s website includes a video statement from David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of “The Wright Brothers.” Meet the latest tourist attractions: Abandoned factories 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

A Scottish immigrant, he changed the spelling soon after he moved to New York, “to promote an image of sophistication,” Mr. Brown and the historian Matthew A. Thurlow write in the catalog. Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z

"Historically, the shows that have done better are populist, mainstream and give us confidence in our public institutions," TV historian Tim Brooks says. Republican-friendly TV shows more likely to be hits 2010-11-23T07:27:00Z

“Since the concept musical was still in a formative stage, this was a schizophrenic show,” the critic and Broadway historian Martin Gottfried later wrote. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Taylor is a deft and engaging historian of her fraught life. Historian recollects the demons of her own past in ‘The Last Asylum’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

“But elsewhere in the early United States,” the historian Philip Dray writes in “The Fair Chase,” “there was little recognition of sport hunting.” How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In a Mediterranean Sea that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini tried to transform into “an Italian lake,” Malta had “the only harbor available to the British between Gibraltar and Alexandria, Egypt,” notes military historian Rick Atkinson. Malta, the island nation just below Sicily, is an increasingly popular stopover 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

If historians have reached the conclusion that no benefits of empire can be extracted from its history of oppression, does that mean moral philosophers must bow to that consensus? Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

SAT Local historians lead a tour of veterans' graves at a historic cemetery with more than 400 veterans interred dating back to the Civil War, 1 p.m. Community calendar 2012-11-07T21:54:04Z

But a presidency isn’t just about policies and budgets and legislation: It’s about setting a tone and beating a drum — what presidential historian Richard Neustadt called using the prestige of the presidency. We will miss Barack Obama for a lot of things, but not his cultural policy 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

"The real James Bonds are more interesting than the fictional James Bond," said author Keith Jeffery, a historian at Queen's University Belfast, who had access to previously secret files in the MI6 archive. UK spies spill secrets in official history of MI6 2010-09-21T15:31:00Z

A commanding theme of Foner’s book is how much American law relied on a racist account called the Dunning School, after the historian William A. Dunning. What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

While no precise record of Tubman’s birth survives, historians and the National Park Service say that she was born Araminta Ross, likely in March 1822. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Cocktail historians might blanch at describing it as a variation on a Negroni, but, at least structurally speaking, that’s exactly what it is. The Perfect Thanksgiving Cocktail Is the Boulevardier 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Kevin Costner played Garrison as an Atticus Finch type fighting an ingrained power structure, though Garrison is dismissed by many mainstream historians as a con man. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z

Curated by the art historian Heather Ewing, the show considers how newcomers to this land have shaped it and been received. The Much-Vaunted American Melting Pot, Cracks and All 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

Historically, “most Chinese eaters have really disdained Americanized Chinese food,” said David R. Chan, a historian and archivist of Chinese food in America. More Than ‘Just Takeout’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

What will a historian in the 22nd century learn about our country, our age, by unearthing video of CNN’s town hall on the climate crisis? We watched all 7 hours of CNN’s climate town hall so you didn’t have to 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Both sculptures are considered by art historians to be among the rarest of their kind. A 36-Hour Jeff Koons Marathon at the Whitney 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Bourgeois moved to New York in 1938 after marrying a U.S. art historian, and her reputation gradually grew. Sculptor Louise Bourgeois dies aged 98: report 2010-06-01T14:56:00Z

In recent decades many historians and theorists have averred that the triumph of abstraction during the two decades after World War II — culminating in Minimalism and Color Field painting — was partly enabled by anti-communist paranoia. Art Review: Montclair Art Museum Shows: ‘Oscar Bluemner,’ ‘New Spirit’ 2013-04-25T20:48:24Z

“In this period, it’s dance numbers that the marketing departments used to sell the movies,” said the dance critic and historian Debra Levine. A Labor Movement for the Artists Who Make Popular Culture Move 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Fax quotes historian Michael Howard that armies often find themselves with poor strategies “not necessarily through the stupidity of their leaders but because all other options seem to be foreclosed or appear demonstrably worse.” 'With Their Bare Hands' tracks America's ascension to military power during WWI 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

But a few Labour historians are more hopeful. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z

Unpublished and almost lost, they were saved by a collector and photo historian Sean Sexton and published in 1998 as “Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones.” Arresting black-and-white photos expose the beauty of ordinary vegetables 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Mondrian was even known to flip his pieces while working on them, said Caro Verbeek, an art historian at a Dutch university who contributed to the exhibition’s catalog. Is the Mondrian Upside Down, or Is It an Abstract Enigma? 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Economists will appreciate Mr Barr’s careful use of wonky concepts; architects and historians will enjoy his keen eye for detail. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Over 2,000 artists, art historians and critics who signed a petition of protest were offended by the museums’ cowardice and lack of faith in their viewers’ ability to look and think for themselves. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Art historians tend to view Johns’s penchant for repeating forms as a philosophical inquiry, a refusal to settle on one fixed message. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s sure changed the Royal Family,” historian and constitutional expert David Starkey wrote in the Sun newspaper of the marriage. 'I am proud to be a feminist': Will Meghan shake-up Britain's royals? 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Public health historian Patrick Zylberman described the fear of catching diseases from money as age-old, and chuckled at the Louvre’s new cash refusal policy. Following coronavirus concerns, France's Louvre Museum reopens 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

But Anna was Italian and so was her sensibility, so her work could be considered authentic,” author and food historian Elisabeth Luard explained. Why Americans should get to know Britain’s favorite Italian cooking authority 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Yet, as historian Maurice Hobson has pointed out, Atlanta also has a large percentage of its black population living in poverty. Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

The best way to understand the past is often to read a novelist rather than an historian. Booker rivals clash again on Walter Scott prize shortlist 2010-04-01T12:06:00Z

And yet, as historians and biographers know well, a body of letters written over time is often the best clue we have to art’s mysterious origin points. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Massie, who was quick to admit that as a historian he “stands on the shoulders of others,” based his book mostly on Catherine’s own memoirs and on already published research. Robert K. Massie?s Latest Subject Is Catherine the Great 2011-11-09T22:40:21Z

Ann Fabian, a historian at Rutgers University and a longtime friend of Reese’s, said that he saw dealers, collectors, auctioneers, catalogers and scholars as part of a “grand collaborative project that creates meaning and value.” Leading Bookseller’s Private Collection Goes Up for Sale 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

“We don’t mean any disrespect to him and to the many thousands of historians who revere him and then the millions of people who revere his memory. But his life was rife for caricature.” ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is a New Entry in the John Brown Canon 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

But all that changed after they submitted its serial number to Air Force historians and its special heritage was revealed. A couple bought a wreck of a plane on eBay to fix up. Then, they learned its history. 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

I’m a historian at heart and I like learning about culture maybe 40 years, 50 years later. ‘Jeopardy!’ champ Matt Amodio’s analytic style is a winner 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Through the clever re-creation of 20 meals, consumed over the centuries and in various locales, a social historian illuminates the influence of apparently mundane habits. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Amy Henderson, who recently retired as a cultural historian at the Portrait Gallery, first saw the bust when she visited Rogers in the 1990s to discuss donations for an exhibit on musicals. Ginger Rogers bust, sculptor’s letter displayed at National Portrait Gallery

AD: NBW works with an astonishing assemblage of consultants, from conservation biologists to cultural historians to Maori tribal leaders. Designer Thomas L. Woltz Is Changing the Landscape of Green Space Design 2013-12-05T05:00:00Z

“He had a very distinguished career,” said Kenneth T. Jackson, a Columbia University historian and editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City, who is on the board. In Giving Petraeus an Honor, an Institution Gets Some Buzz 2013-09-15T21:50:36Z

The best known of these barnstorming teams, often called “Black Fives” by historians, were the New York Renaissance and the Harlem Globetrotters. ‘High Flying Bird’ Is Rich With Historical References. Here’s a Closer Look. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

According to Kenneth R. Bowling, a leading historian of Washington, many wanted the capital to “outshine Rome, London and all the capitals” that had come before it in its urban grandeur. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Edwards was known for being an oral historian of the music genre and would tell biographical stories between songs at his shows, Frank said. Bluesman David 'Honey Boy' Edwards dead at 96 2011-08-30T00:32:17Z

Certainly, some historians can be prudish to the point of actual censorship of their subjects' lives, but here the movie is just being silly. 1776: the original constitutional nightmare 2010-08-12T08:22:00Z

The musical theater historian Laurence Maslon charts the waning of the exclamation point to the style of serious musical theater exemplified by the director Harold Prince and the composer Stephen Sondheim. Broadway Shows Get the Point! Again! 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

For the first time in two decades, it is also holding a state competition to hire 500 more art historians and archaeologists for sites across Italy. The Taming of Italy’s Most Popular Museum 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Complexity, ambiguity and paradox may be sweet nectar for historians, but not necessarily for a broad public that tends to prefer grand generalizations, sound bites and contemporary categories into which to shoehorn historical figures. Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Other historians say young women from the city who danced for the goddess Artemis were inspirations. Caryatid Statues, Restored, Are Stars at Athens Museum 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

According to one prominent historian, we have yet to resolve our anxiety over this activity, which represents not a social engagement with another, but a retreat into the unbounded world of our imaginations. Masturbation: literature's last taboo 2010-04-21T08:36:00Z

In academic circles the book became, as one art historian described it, the equivalent of Mao’s Little Red Book, and it went on to sell more than a million copies, never going out of print. John Berger, Provocative Art Critic, Dies at 90 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

In “One Hot Summer,” the historian Rosemary Ashton threads these stories together, providing a vivid snapshot of Victorian life and culture. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Season With Dickens, Darwin and Disraeli 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

The visual historian, now in his mid-80s, still lives in New York, on the Upper East Side, though he no longer photographs. Black Can Be Even More Beautiful 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

And so on, as if to account for all possible reactions: “Collectors of Fine Art will Flock…,” “Scholars will Study and Debate…,” “Art historians will wonder…,” “Critics will shake their heads...” Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

African American food historian Michael Twitty was attacked on social media for his comments about white chefs projecting ownership onto a food culture that is not entirely theirs. Discomfort food: Using dinners to talk about race, violence and America 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

In the 1920s and ’30s, French historians of the Annales School combined history, geography and sociology to explore the evolution of civilizations. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

It’s a sanctimonious term that’s caught on among food historians, especially Southern ones, in recent years. Books of The Times: What Africa Brought to the Table 2011-01-24T18:22:55Z

Almost a century and a half later, the paper was discovered and played by an audio historian named David Giovannoni, who used optical imaging and a so-called virtual stylus to read the etchings. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

But even as mainstream institutions diversify, some public historians say it’s important to recognize the role of culturally specific institutions. Will America Be Ready for Its 250th Birthday? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

The National Board of Review, a group of film historians, educators and students, also picked "The Social Network" as best of the year. "King's Speech" leads Golden Globe nominations 2010-12-14T14:29:00Z

He might show up alone, or with a famous historian, perhaps David McCullough or Ken Burns. Spotlight on researcher for McCullough, Ken Burns 2012-11-19T15:11:31Z

As one historian noted, the building “emanates a profound gloom.” Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday at 8 p.m., the performance artist Marina Abramovic will talk with the curator and art historian Norman Rosenthal and answer audience questions. Spare Times for June 21-27 2013-06-20T22:57:28Z

The ghost stories — or “hant stories,” as they were colloquially called — were part of a belief system that, as the historian Lawrence Levine argued, prevented “legal slavery from being spiritual slavery.” The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

It's an intriguing thought that reminds me of a famous passage in Tacitus's Agricola, the historian's biography of his father-in-law, who was governor of Britain from AD78-84. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z

By a historian and social scientist at the University of Sydney. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

“We need to bring the old city back to life and mobilize all our efforts and endowments,” said Benghazi historian and writer Fathi al-Sahli. Benghazi looks to preserve historic buildings shattered by war 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians. Sunday Reading: Veterans’ Stories 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Veronica Roberts, the curator who organized the show at the Blanton, through July 12, described Mr. Ruscha’s studio as “an art historian’s dream.” Ed Ruscha: He Up and Went Home 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Among literary scholars and art historians, he is best known for a book translated into English as “The Romantic Agony.” T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z

No historian can possibly wish to be the subject of a biography. The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

His paintings imagine “an alternative world,” the art historian wrote in Die Zeit, in which the artist’s “unfulfilled longing” for a different kind of society is satisfied. A German Painter’s New Rule: ‘Never Answer a Critic’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Art historians, museum curators and exhibition captions generally avoid the word "genius" like the plague. The Da Vinci ode: I was right about Leonardo's genius 2011-04-01T14:19:07Z

And historians of stage magic, spiritualism, and Nietzsche will find much to applaud and critique here. The real (and more interesting) story behind Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight” 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

According to the ancient historian Josephus, it was the site of a Roman siege that ended in 73 AD when hundreds of Jewish rebels committed mass suicide rather than fall as slaves to the Romans. Israel Opera Festival's La Traviata rocks at Masada 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

For many years, the picture confused art historians, because it looks like a landscape — a mountain scene in the Caucasus, no less, replete with a horse drinking from a stream. Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Addressing Lee’s stance on slavery, she acknowledged, with other historians, that he harbored deep misgivings on the subject. Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Biographer of Clara Barton and Robert E. Lee, Dies at 64 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

A representative for the heirs, who include the Berlin historian and political scientist Julius Schoeps, said there is no doubt that the work was sold as a result of persecution. National Gallery of Art Returns Picasso Work to Settle Claim 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

These days, Lily Dale’s summer high season, which starts at the end of June, draws 30,000 visitors a year, says Lily Dale historian Ron Nagy, who also conducts spoon-bending workshops. This (maybe) haunted New York hamlet is a center of the U.S. spiritualist movement 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Certainly, these new Berliners constitute a real change in a city where, according to the German historian Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, only thirty thousand “people of Jewish identity” had been living. So Long, Israel; Hello, Berlin 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

And here, the dispassionate historian calmly takes the gloves off. The Founders Look at Modern America 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, “it was as hazardous for the people shooting the flames as the people in the line of fire,” said weapons historian Mike Loades. The incredibly dangerous weapon that is legal almost everywhere 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

At Columbia after the war, he studied for his master's degree under Richard Hofstadter, then a new faculty member, but eventually an influential and popular historian who helped set Remini's scholarly path. Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson scholar, dies at 91 2013-04-06T07:46:03Z

“Then they were fleeing war and oppression,” Kristin Thompson, a film historian who has written about globalization, said in an email. Here’s Hollywood’s Newest Foreign Legion 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Now 54 and a father himself, Cooper has taken a second look and, with historian Katherine Howe, written the book “Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty” that explores the family’s complicated legacy. More than a statue: Cooper explores the Vanderbilt legacy 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Here to remedy the oversight is film historian Joseph McBride, whose new book, “How Did Lubitsch Do It?,” reacquaints readers with the director’s genius while pondering how he slipped from our collective memory. Review | A forgotten filmmaker who influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder gets his due 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

“It was a very clever concept,” says Sam Gennawey, an urban planner and Disney historian, who conducted an unofficial feasibility study of the original Epcot. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Dying turns many of us into counterfactual historians. ‘Dying: A Memoir’ Is a Bracing Illumination of Terminal Illness 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

“The sixties were really the dark ages for mixology,” the cocktail historian David Wondrich told me. How T.G.I. Friday’s Helped Invent the Singles Bar   2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Matthew Sturgis is a historian, and he believes that with “Oscar Wilde: A Life” he may be able to refresh the narrative by eschewing interpretation. Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

It can, after all, marshall a small army of architects, poets, historians, and artists. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Food was very new for me — I’m not a food expert or food historian. Josh Kun, new MacArthur fellow: We use food and music to draw boundaries, but also cross them 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Bezmozgis is such an astute and compassionate observer, a meticulous historian and a gifted stylist that, even when suspense and momentum seem to be lacking, the pages still tend to fly by. Books of The Times: One Jewish Family in 2 Worlds, Outsiders in Both 2011-04-10T19:00:16Z

"I don't believe Hollywood is the vanguard of popular culture; it reflects the culture it is in," adds American Film Institute historian Bob Birchard. 'Selma's' depiction of civil rights years: Less saintly, more swagger 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The historian Claudio Saunt’s book traces the expulsion of 80,000 Native Americans over the course of the 1830s, from their homes in the eastern United States to territories west of the Mississippi River. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

The show initially ignored the story about Sarah Palin's confusing comments about Paul Revere until she continued to defend herself, then brought on a historian to debunk her interpretation of Revere's rides. CNN's Anderson Cooper: 'I'm not an opinion person' 2011-06-13T16:40:05Z

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame sends ballots to over 1,000 artists, historians and members of the music industry to select the inductees. Stevie Nicks, Def Leppard early favorites for Rock Hall of Fame 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

An article last Sunday about recently reissued albums misstated the connection between the jazz historian and saxophonist Loren Schoenberg and Count Basie. Reissues: ’50s Moxie, ’60s Soul and ’90s Hip-Hop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

“There will be plenty of naysayers, of course, as there is with anything, especially the historians,” Gips said. Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photo 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Although "the historian and anthropologist in Meyer sometimes impede the storyteller", – and in particular the Colonel, its "grimly compelling" patriarch – is "a remarkable achievement". Book reviews roundup: The Divine Comedy, The Son and The World Is Ever Changing 2013-07-19T18:00:00Z

As a historian of contemporary art, I wanted to learn more about this headline-grabbing work. Ivanka and her tower of crumbs 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

After the Depression hit, said Mr. Pierce, a historian and director of the Media History Digital Library, there were many layoffs at Technicolor, and “the only thing that they kept funding was development of three-color.” Technicolor at 100: Saturation and Subtlety in Filmmaking 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Speaking of these final titles in a 2017 remembrance of Jones, culinary historian Anne Mendelson noted, “The mere fact that she was eager to champion stateside Latin American food as quintessential American food is extraordinary.” She brought us France with Julia Child, but Judith Jones’s culinary legacy also tells an American story 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Later, in 2007, the art historian Jan Baptist Bedaux told me this was the first time a black kid was portrayed as a symbol for innocence in western art. Ruud van Empel's strange creations 2013-03-20T12:17:00Z

William of Newburgh, a medieval English historian, recorded one account of a town devastated by such a monster, who was accused of filling “every house with disease and death by its pestiferous breath.” Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

As a state historian, Mr Jang was allowed to read banned portions of the country’s unvarnished history, the better to distort it. Binding minds 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z

They flutter in from niche museums, government agencies, school libraries and county historians — released on a summons from The National Archives and Records Administration of the United States. The Record Keepers’ Rave 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Yarrow may have stayed quietly unknown and nearly lost to history if not for the curiosity of local historian and lawyer James Johnston. What lies beneath: Searching for the bones of Yarrow Mamout, a turn-of-the-19th-century Georgetown celebrity 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The groom’s father was a boxing aficionado, a sports journalist, historian and author. In Each Other’s Corner From the Beginning 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Here, then, was a book that rambled over aspects of human experience that had never before had their historian. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z

It’s not much to look at from the outside, but get past the tight security checks and you’ll find yourself in a historian’s paradise. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Art historians and curators should be on the lookout for other examples of mutual-admiration societies like this one, formed by three artists with vastly different experiences of, and attitudes toward, privilege and education. Art Review: Alfonso Ossorio, Who Knew Both Pollock and Dubuffet 2013-08-01T22:28:40Z

The paper's editor, Frank Giles, had taken care to authenticate the diaries with a well-respected historian, who had deemed them legitimate. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

Yet what historians and critics have generally failed to see is that they were inscrutable and even crypt-like not by accident but by design. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Every spring, serious scholars and amateur historians flock from all over the country to attend the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, the largest event of its kind, held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. You’re going where? Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

And Nigeria’s artists, historians, activists and royals have been seeking for decades to get the pieces back. Smithsonian to Return Most of Its Benin Bronze Collection to Nigeria 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

More than one art historian believes that Fu drank himself to death. Art Review: Fu Baoshi, China?s Master Modernist, at Metropolitan Museum 2012-01-27T00:09:56Z

“We needed to tell our story, to be able to show the British people that this is what we do on their behalf,” said Tony Comer, the organization’s official historian. A Museum Show for the Spies of Tomorrow 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

“My major issue,” says historian Twitty, “is, are the people eating the food appreciating the context?” Why everyone should stop calling immigrant food ‘ethnic’ 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

In Hamburg, the collection was used by, among others, the philosopher Ernst Cassirer and the art historian Erwin Panofsky, whose interdisciplinary approach shaped a generation of scholarship in their fields. Warburg Institute Threatened by Funding Woes 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Some historians and some of Hitler's contemporaries described him as a very forgettable and not very impressive man. The Jewish family on Hitler’s street: “We didn’t know he was going to turn the world upside... 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The grid as a form gets an impressive pre-Minimalist workout in 1940s room dividers made of cellophane and horsehair by the incomparable weaver, printmaker, art historian, philosopher, teacher, theorist and life-student Anni Albers. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

A historian and detective get caught up in a case involving a popular author and an Edgar Allen Poe themed restaurant. Washington Post bestsellers: October 1 ,2017 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

A wide-ranging group of experts who support Egypt’s bid for restrictions, among them historians, archaeologists, cultural heritage lawyers and security consultants, met with Dr. Ali at his embassy on Wednesday to discuss Egypt’s plight. Egypt Asks U.S. to Impose Sharp Curbs on Importing of Antiquities 2014-03-14T22:09:51Z

Evidence of painting’s lively persistence is on view in Chelsea in five ambitious group exhibitions organized by a range of people: art dealers, independent curators and art historians. Art Review: In Five Chelsea Galleries, the State of Painting 2012-06-28T22:03:04Z

Tsu, a cultural historian and literary scholar of modern China, examines how language shaped China’s evolution into a global superpower. Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

To cope with the constant worry, Ms. Koutseridi, 34, burrowed deeper into her side gigs as a baker, cook and historian of Ukrainian food. Rescuing the Cuisine of Besieged Mariupol, Recipe by Family Recipe 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a paper by cultural historians at the University of Auckland, New Zealand that attempts to document the growth of the concept of sex addiction. Report: Sex addiction is B.S. 2013-02-06T22:53:00Z

World Conference on Women, when the Museo de Arte Moderno produced the clumsy tribute to women, the museum also put together a colloquium that brought together women from disparate fields — artists, historians, anthropologists. How Mexico's súper rudas 'Radical Women' are rewriting the history of Latin American art 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Her husband, meanwhile, joined historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in New York for a closed-door address to employees of the A&E cable network. The Obamas face the paid-speaking circuit — and all the questions that come with it 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Mind you, only historians who either subscribe to the theory that Cleopatra was Black or at least welcome it show up here, by Pinkett Smith's design. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

And the Joliet Area Historical Museum hopes visitors will pay $20 each to walk through and listen to tales from local historians and former prison guards. Outside Chicago, historic Old Joliet Prison is open for tours — at least for now 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The origins of the diet lie in the history of American slavery, according to food historian Jessica B. Harris, who appears in the film. Film explores African-Americans' unhealthy "soul food" habit 2012-12-27T17:01:21Z

Social historian Janet Theophano echoes this sentiment in her book Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote, emphasizing the importance of cookbooks as "opportunities for women to write themselves into being." What were cupcakes like in the 1700s? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The breadth of the conspiracy remains fodder for historians — there are those who say it went all the way to the top of the Confederate leadership. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Catherine Merridale is one of the foremost foreign historians of Russia, combining wry insights with deep sympathy for the human beings suffering the tragedies she writes about. Missed connection 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, in his survey of the history of war, he seems to have missed the discussion by the historian and sociologist Charles Tilly about how modern war made the modern state. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

“The stereotype of the creative genius has not let go when we look at people out of the past,” says Thompson, the Syracuse University historian. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

Q: You're trained as a historian with a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z

To historians of technology, the story of the internet—essentially, the story of how our cognition and culture began to merge with machines—is often focused on hackers and software engineers. ‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

“What we are looking at here is the American democratic system in its primordial ooze,” Philip Mead, the museum’s chief historian, said. On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The programs are more than entertaining nostalgia, the two curators and some cultural historians say. ‘Funky Turns 40’ Show Recalls a Seminal TV Moment 2014-03-19T17:25:11Z

The magazine only survived for six issues, leading historian Bethan Benwell to speculate, “There were limits to how far the ‘playboy ethic’ could be pushed. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z

In recent years, there have been sometimes acrimonious debates about the validity of Western versus Indigenous ways of knowing, and about whether historians are obligated to consult with contemporary Native communities. A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

“When you really break it down — what is inherently feminine about announcing the White House Christmas decor scheme?” asks Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a historian who studies first ladies. Dear Bill Clinton: Yes, first lady is a weird job. Here’s why you’d be great at it. 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

After all, it is not incumbent on a historian to offer up possible remedies — except this is the closing task Khalidi sets for himself. Is There Any Way to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Published in 1950, Paz’s essay endures for its imaginative associations and musical prose, though it is contentious: Some anthropologists and historians consider his definition of Mexicanness to be Manichaean and contrived. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Franklin is a food historian and writer based in Kingston, N.Y. No courses, no assigned seats, no hassles: How I throw a dinner party 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Morris opens his gripping narrative with Jemima Wilkinson, a Revolutionary-era mystic from Rhode Island, well-known to historians but often left out of conventional accounts of that era. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

But Valerie Steele, a historian at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, saw Mr. de la Renta’s couture influence in his bright combinations and full skirts and sleeves. Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer, dies at 82

So recounts Margaret MacMillan, the Canadian historian, in “War: How Conflict Shaped Us,” her richly eclectic discussion of how culture and society have been molded by warfare throughout history. A Historian Explains What Civilization Owes to War 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

I asked James Lin, who is a Taiwanese historian and a professor at the University of Washington, to look over the main essays in the beginning of my book. "Taiwanese food is an underdog": In her new cookbook, Clarissa Wei writes a love letter to Taiwan 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

Richard E. Grant, most recently seen by most on HBO's "Girls," visits the grand estate and plays an art historian who develops an interest in more than just what's hanging on the walls. Change is in the air at 'Downton Abbey' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Mark Rothko’s legacy and contribution to the Abstract Expressionism movement is explored in interviews with his children, Kate and Christopher, curators, art historians and conservators. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

"When you watch some of the old movies of bombing runs, its the plane you see," said Boeing historian Mike Lombardi said. War planes to be the star in WWII museum expansion 2010-08-26T19:19:00Z

Folklorists and historians, meanwhile, continue to tease out the sources of such materials, correcting names, stories and struggles previously left out of the history. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

At the same time, however, historians here do not try to whitewash Schuyler’s personal connection with slaveholding, including at the mansion, said Heidi L. Hill, the site’s manager. Philip Schuyler Is Knocked Off His Pedestal in Albany 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

The two historians, who were close friends, both worked and volunteered at transit companies and fan groups. Antiques: Robert Megna?s Medical Device Collection Goes to Auction 2011-08-25T22:28:50Z

The Los Angeles and New York film critics groups picked it as the year's best movie, as did the National Board of Review, a group of film historians, educators and students. 'King's Speech' leads Globes with 7 nominations 2010-12-14T18:33:50Z

Newspapers tend to see it as safe; art historians analyse its bourgeois ideology. The impressionists, Degas and Shepard Fairey – the week in art 2012-06-29T10:18:23Z

I can not believe you did not include Dorky Chase, as a historian. The Magnificent 10: Restaurants That Changed How We Eat 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Viking Ocean Cruises recently added resident historians to the crews of each of its six ships. On Your Next Cruise, Put Down That Cocktail and Head to Class 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

MON Historic Seattle program on the centennial of World War I and its import on Seattle with historian Lorraine McDonaghy, 7 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

According to the historian Paul Cronin, these students faced off in a violent clash with a counterrevolutionary group calling itself the Majority Coalition, which consisted mainly of conservative athletes and fraternity brothers. The War on Frats 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

Colter’s descriptions of “hidden fires, smoking pits” and a pervasive sulfur smell along the Shoshone River near Cody, Wyo., were later broadly applied to Yellowstone, leading early historians to mistakenly label it “Colter’s Hell.” Yellowstone during the pandemic: Reliably magnificent 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

As in Gettysburg and Chicago, the signs historians brought emphasized facts and primary sources. Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

I’m a fanatical Van Halen fan who happens to be a historian by training. The Rolling Stones of Gen X: “David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen are our Jagger and Richards” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

But in this account of old-master exhibitions and how they informed the development of museums, art historian Francis Haskell explains that many of these pieces were previously displayed in churches or galleries. What to read before you hit Europe’s museums 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

An art historian, played by Bill Nighy, is eloquently championing his favourite painter to a rapt audience. Gaugin, Van Gogh and Doctor Who 2010-09-27T13:38:00Z

“Marriage is not in decline, it is in delay,” says historian Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History and director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Draft after draft would then follow, with Terry posing questions to his collaborating historian, ensuring the accuracy of detail for the proposed date of reconstruction. Terry Ball obituary 2011-03-22T18:24:10Z

Denied diaries, letters or first drafts — whether of songs or presidential speeches — future historians will find it much harder to plumb the minds of the famous. Review: ‘California Typewriter’: Preserving the Past, Key by Key 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The historian, though, can tell you quite a lot. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Told from the perspective of a fictional amateur historian, "The Accursed" focuses on the aristocratic Slade family. Joyce Carol Oates takes on Ivy League society in new novel 2013-03-08T23:42:08Z

In Apollo’s Angels, former dancer and historian Jennifer Homans predicts the end of ballet as the art form becomes more insular, speaking to fewer and fewer people. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z

But according to architectural historian Annmarie Adams, pink didn’t always automatically signal femininity. Can pink really pacify? 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

In 1963 she married Daniel Gasman, a historian of science, and they soon moved to New York. 2010-02-06T07:28:00Z

Rather than perpetuating such false consciousness, Cannadine concludes that historians should adopt a self-denying ordinance and abandon their obsessive concern with such categories – whether national, religious, racial, civilisational, gender or class. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z

He brought up this suggestion that he didn't like the way food historians and the way people were talking about Native American food. How to cook Native American cuisine at home with chef Freddie Bitsoie 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

Part reference librarian, part gossip columnist, distinct from a concierge, the historian has become an increasingly popular figure in high-end hotels or inns with actual history. The Hotel Historian Is at Your Service 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

The quote was “a turning point in the evolution of the role of first lady,” said Carl Sferrazza Anthony, the historian for the National First Ladies’ Library. The 2016 first lady cookie contest is just as weird as the rest of the election 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Michele H. Bogart, an art historian who has written in support of preserving the Arnautoff murals, described the new vote as “welcome news.” San Francisco School Board Reverses Vote on Mural Removal 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Arthur Schwartz, a food writer and historian, recalled a restaurant that New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme opened in Manhattan more than 20 years ago that also prohibited dining companions from ordering the same dish. Have it our way or else, say New York chefs 2011-03-05T04:57:18Z

Amy Greenberg, a historian at Penn State and the society’s new president, seconded the notion. Clash of the Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

For "Darkly," Harris drew on photographer and historian Deborah Willis and her book "Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present." 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

In 1950, as now, architectural historians were usually on the ground, if not deskbound. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z

As the historian Seymour Drescher has put it, several hundred years ago, “freedom, not slavery, was the peculiar institution.” A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

That means approaching their history with detachment and a critical eye, insulating in-house historians and curators from larger institutional pressure, and accepting the possibility that the organization’s past isn’t always pretty. Perspective | Can institutions tell their own stories? Yes, if they learn to think like a museum. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The historian gripped us simply with the power of his narrative and I remember actually looking forward to each nightly date with my box set. Simon Schama: TV dumber-down or simply the greatest? 2012-06-28T13:55:10Z

According to the historian Edward Hasted, writing in the 1770s, Cooling was “an unfrequented place, the roads of which are deep and miry, and it is as unhealthy as it is unpleasant.” Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

After curators and historians began to embrace the humanist school in the 1970s, Ms. Weiss found more time, and grant money, to pursue her own interests. Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

The archives of wallpaper and fabric designers can be fragile; manufacturers and designers often pay little attention to old renderings, which historians appreciate as documentation of popular tastes. The David Parr House’s Hidden Gem in Cambridge, England 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

“We historians, in the wake of the controversy over Confederate monuments, we have to use this as a teachable moment,” Chernow says. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Art historians argue over whether Vermeer really used a camera obscura to produce his arrestingly lifelike scenes. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z

An academic historian, and sometime British diplomat, Axworthy avoids the grand schemes and theories that have so clouded the study of Iran. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-01T17:30:02Z

Marley regarded London as his "second base and spiritual home", according to music historian Russell Clarke. Marley's haunts 2011-05-11T14:07:21Z

As the historian Mark Berry writes in his new book, “After Wagner,” there is an “abiding moral question” involved in Strauss’s work, and a political one too: “What is this music for?” Richard Strauss Recordings Recommended by Critics 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

So it was time to call a historian. Perspective | Why might women be less eager to get the coronavirus vaccine? An investigation. 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

In the 1970s, historians had no access to Soviet or Chinese documents, and the world itself seemed deadlocked between rival superpowers. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

An award-winning biographer and historian, Anthony David brings us the story of unexpected friendship while he discovers the true pasts of two outstanding women. Border walls aren't about security — they're about preventing empathy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

An article last month in the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera said that a growing chorus of historians and researchers have called the Palatucci rescue “a blatant scam orchestrated by friends and relatives.” An Italian Saint in the Making or a Collaborator With Nazis 2013-06-19T23:11:51Z

Unlike the historian," she argues, "the novelist doesn't operate through hindsight. Author, author: Antony Beevor on faction 2011-02-19T00:05:34Z

The restaurant’s website reports that some historians believe pasta was invented in Italy while others believe Marco Polo brought pasta back to Italy from his journey to China. National Spaghetti Day: A look at the history of the dish 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

Eric K. Washington, a historian, will lead a tour in Harlem covering the history found from 125th to 135th Streets. Spare Times for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:03:54Z

But it was just a kitchen, or that’s how the male architectural establishment saw it, as did the feminist design historians, who resurrected the reputations of other women designers. Modernist Triumph in the Kitchen 2010-09-26T18:44:00Z

I get to be apart from the making and the not making, because I’m an art historian. | Bomb Magazine Gala 2012-05-01T19:40:37Z

“Even though we tear down our history in Vegas,” said Paco, the company’s art curator and historian, “there’s still living history in our county.” Zappos’s CEO is helping revitalize downtown Las Vegas. He took me on a whirlwind tour. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The historian and frequent TV host Lucy Worsley explains everything, including the large-scale international relations of the union and the more minute details of what kinds of silk undergarments Queen Victoria used to wear. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The university stood as a kind of crucible for the Beats, who were emerging “like a wild seed in a city garden,” wrote the Beat historian Bill Morgan. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z

It was first remarked on by ancient Roman historians 2,000 years ago. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's art showed the grotesque symptoms of dictatorship 2011-08-26T13:25:04Z

When the disgraced Chief Executive died in 1994, historian Jonathan Rauch wrote in The New Republic that Nixon’s had been “the worst presidency of the century.” Cranky Guy: Nixon's Still the One 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

Stanley Kurtz, one such critical voice, expressed concern last year regarding the College Board’s ties to historian Thomas Bender. There is no such thing as an “unbiased” history class: The right-wing backlash against AP U.S. history masks a deeper problem with how and what we teach 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Contemporary historians have begun examining all the roles that women have taken in movie history, including during Hollywood’s golden age. Thrills, Tears and the Real Gone Girls of Cinema 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Sylvester Hoover, a neighborhood blues historian and tour guide, likes to point to the now vacant lot where Johnson briefly lived and where he'd play guitar on Saturday mornings and draw a crowd. Salutes mark bluesman Robert Johnson's centennial 2011-05-05T21:22:08Z

In an interview with The Washington Post this year, rock historian Albin Zak called Mr. Berry a “very literate” wordsmith but that more important was the “durability” of his songs. Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

In “The People, No,” the historian Thomas Frank, very much in the Sanders camp, traces that story yet further back, to the first popular cries against the dominion of Wall Street. The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

But when a historian, Michael Beschloss, tweeted out a barren photograph of the Rose Garden last August and called Trump’s controversial renovation an “evisceration,” on its one-year anniversary, she came out swinging. Melania Trump auctions off her hat, and has become the latest victim of the cryptocurrency crash 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

A modern-day historian described the hunting run in another more relatable way: White fortune hunters and settlers took his people’s grocery stores. With "The American Buffalo," Ken Burns connects an icon of the natural world to our nation's history 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z

Art historians rarely rest, and the world is generally a better place for their exertions. Art Review: Putting Names to the Greats of Indian Art 2011-09-29T22:39:43Z

“You don’t want it to become like a zoo — ‘Oh, those are the scholars over there looking at books,’ ” said Berg, the historian. The Library of Congress wants to attract more visitors. Will that undermine its mission? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“This is not your father’s polyester,” said Deborah Young, a textile historian and professor at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, of the fabric used to make Barefoot Dreams. Barefoot Dreams and the Conquest of Cozy 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Circus historian Janet Davis notes that some of these performances included clowns in drag "playing gender-bending pranks on dumbfounded men who expected to see nude women." The creepy clown emerged from the crass and bawdy circuses of the 19th century 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

But it wasn’t just historians who inspired me as I was starting out. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The series, subtitled “A Personal View by Lord Clark,” was developed by David Attenborough and presented by Kenneth Clark, an art historian and museum director with a great synthesizing intelligence, excellent diction and bad teeth. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

The historian Linda K. Jacobs, in her recent book, “Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City, 1880-1900,” traces the biographies of a few immigrant belly dancers. A Wriggle in Time: Historical Artifacts of Belly Dancing 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

In his book Plagues and Peoples, the historian William Hardy McNeill describes how the British army carried cholera overland into Nepal and Afghanistan, while British navy and merchant ships carried it beyond the Indian Ocean. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

TV historian Stephen Bowie wrote in his “Classic TV History” blog that Mr. Grauman’s work on the series marked its “transformation from a simplistic cops-and-robbers shoot-’em-up into a richer, more character-driven melodrama.” Walter Grauman, prolific television director, dies at 93 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

We’re even introduced to the fictional historian who compiled the file, and given the transcript of a podcast interview in which she talks about her research. An Unapologetically Feminist Western Novel 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“For me, of course, as a historian, I wish it was completely, totally accurate,” Larson said. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

“No obituary, death certificate or interment record has been found,” the New Orleans historian Patricia Brady writes in the catalog. Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z

“I became a historian, a chronicler of this way of life,” he told the reporter Marsha Lederman, “and this way of life is just about over. The cowboys are all gone.” Ian Tyson, Revered Canadian Folk Singer, Dies at 89 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

She would surely agree with Macaulay that historians write for their times. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

For historians and diary scholars, manuscripts are artifacts. Handwritten diaries may feel old fashioned, but they offer insights that digital diaries can't match 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Kenneth Clark, the art historian, helped him gain access to the Queen’s collection. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

“I don’t think the ensemble film has ever quite taken root in America,” the film historian David Thomson said by e-mail this week. ?Expendables,? ?Pilgrim? and Film?s New Formula 2010-08-11T22:18:00Z

In a foreword, Caroline Kennedy notes her mother had discussed his murder at length with historian William Manchester but later sued to keep much of the material from being published until 2067. Book: Kennedy scorned idea of Johnson as president 2011-09-09T11:11:09Z

Still, over the years curators, historians and scholars have speculated about whom the figure might be. Inside Art: Learning the Identity of a Phantom Picasso Subject 2012-03-01T23:28:37Z

“To me, the better phrase is ‘vigilante antidemocratic paramilitary violence,’” Gregory P. Downs, a historian at the University of California, Davis, who studies Reconstruction said. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

And the lady inside is, as Hennessy says, handed over to the historians. Margaret Thatcher funeral: Dimbleby is stately on TV's near-state ocacasion 2013-04-17T16:46:10Z

Mr. Phillips tried Will French, a corporate lawyer who works in film financing and who serves as the in-house historian of the Rex Organization, among the most prominent groups that organize Mardi Gras floats. After Decades of Searching, 1898 Film of New Orleans Mardi Gras Is Found 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Theaters then that were showing sexploitation closed or had to make the jump to hard-core, and that’s where the bubble burst,” Frank Henenlotter, a director and exploitation film historian, said in a phone interview. Sexploitation Films, Short on Good Taste, Still Have Devotees 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

When Ms. Wagstaff started at the Met, there were four accomplished art historians with the title of associate curators. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

“There was something fresh and energetic about his work, and his peers envied the light sense of humor and the simplicity of design,” the comic-book historian Mark Evanier noted on his blog. Darwyn Cooke, Comic Book Artist With a Retro Take, Dies at 53 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Summerson later became one of the UK's leading architectural historians, earning a knighthood and carrying considerable influence in Whitehall. Hull blitz photos mark 70th anniversary of city's destruction 2011-03-22T11:29:25Z

Other art historians continue to wrestle with the series’ subject matter, with a long list of feminist scholars discussing the imagery in terms of violence against women. Sacred or Sexist? After a Brazen Theft, Seeing de Kooning in a New Light. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

What historians writing decades from now make of Obama will have as much to do with what happens between now and then as it does with what happened during his presidency. Remembering President Obama 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

In this case, the phrase originally appeared in a 1976 essay by historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, though the wording differed slightly. Freud never said that: 19 of history’s most famous misquotes 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

A Nazi propaganda film used by historians provides insight into life in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. TV Picks: New 'Looney Tunes Show' 2011-05-02T20:31:07Z

This evolution mirrors that of the resort in its early days, said Field Horne, a local historian. The Hamptons on the Hoof 2013-08-09T22:11:52Z

He’s also well known as a passionate historian of American song and for his vast collection of memorabilia. Archive of the American Songbook Finds a New Home in the Heartland 2011-02-05T00:03:28Z

Last spring, American Cruise Lines, which already operates the Queen of the Mississippi, launched the paddle wheel ship America, offering 185 passengers free shore excursions, nightly musical entertainment and an onboard historian. More Cruises on the Mississippi 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

In a superb, deliberately contrarian piece about Edward Gibbon, Bagehot neatly mocks English prejudice when he describes the future historian’s temporary conversion to Catholicism: Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Follett is best appreciated as a novelist, not a historian. Books of The Times: Ken Follett Offers Second Volume of Century Trilogy 2012-09-16T22:11:55Z

Of greater interest to fashion historians than to art connoisseurs, it made €29,000. Auctions: At Auction, the Treasures of a Tycoon War Hero 2011-04-08T13:29:04Z

But some art historians and Italian officials quickly expressed skepticism about the attribution, or dismissed it outright, with one leading curator calling it “a total invention.” Drawings Said to Be Caravaggio’s Raise Doubts 2012-07-06T23:48:29Z

The best historians, he goes on, invite readers to accompany them “behind the scenes.” The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Photograph: moviescreenshots.blogspot.com Teju Cole is a writer, art historian and street photographer. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z

A historian who wrote the book on the Mall agreed. A music festival holds part of the Mall for big-dollar attendees. Is that okay? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The Harvard art historian Joseph Koerner told Harvard Gazette that Professor Ackerman’s books “were all milestones in the field — books that seem as perfectly balanced as the buildings they interpreted.” James S. Ackerman, Author of Enduring Books on Architecture, Dies at 97 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mukherjee, an oncologist, writes with supreme authority on a scary, depressing subject, combining the perspective of a physician and medical historian with the sensitivity of a poet. What book critics are reading: 'The Emperor of All Maladies' and 'Charlie Chan' 2011-01-29T00:47:54Z

It began as an Allied endeavor and, according to the historian Toby Haggith, the director of the restoration, was meant to include concluding statements from President Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Revisiting Concentration Camp Atrocities in Shattering Clarity 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

To promote the book, which Mr. May wrote with a photography historian and conservator, Elena Vidal, he has embarked on a tour considerably more sedate than the ones he used to know. Village Green, Preserved: Brian May?s Photo Recovery 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z

In “Christmas: A Biography ,” social historian Judith Flanders questions the widespread assumption that “a deeply solemn religious event” has been “sullied” by our own secular, capitalist society. Review | Christmas: Holy day, holiday or nostalgic wish? 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

“That they appear irrelevant to American historians, aberrant to contemporary evangelicals and abhorrent to the average consumerist is a signature of the victory capitalism has achieved over the American religious imagination,” he writes. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

While the Aztec city of Teotihuacan thrived between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., the legendary Temple of the Feathered Serpent is still confounding historians and archeologists. 8 Awe-Inspiring Pyramids From Around the World 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

As early as 1874 the historian William Wells Brown had said, “There is a feeling all over this country that the Negro has got about as much as he ought to have.” The South’s Fight for White Supremacy 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

The gentlemanly George Will, a historian of some repute, was never a big fan of Trump. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Hi, 2016 Trump voters. We have to talk. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Any historian who survives to tell the tale will probably label this the age of the two chain reactions. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

They ruminate on the film historian's uncanny ability to access Hollywood's past, its specters, the things that haunt the industry, leaving orb like traces on our current entertainment landscape. Sex and the cinema girl: Karina Longworth dives into '80s and '90s erotic films, revealing herself 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z

Film historian and TCM host Alicia Malone, who has written books on women in film, said she was surprised by just how many films she had never seen in the programming and the documentary. TCM shines a spotlight on female directors and their art 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Mainstream art historians used to agree that Picasso peaked with his explorations of Analytic Cubism in the teens and that his career after World War II represents a long, sad decline into artistic senility. Art Review: What the Peripatetic Picasso Kept in His Closets 2011-03-10T23:11:06Z

Britain's leading museums and art galleries should start charging entrance fees, according to the historian and Labour MP Tristram Hunt. Labour MP Tristram Hunt calls for national collections to charge entry fees 2011-03-06T00:15:12Z

The title is also in step with a growing interest among curators and art historians in the mechanisms of history, memory and trauma. Art Review | 'Haunted': ?Haunted?: Photos and Appropriation at Guggenheim 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z

“He brought zydeco to unprecedented new audiences,” said Ben Sandmel, a music historian who wrote a book titled “Zydeco!” about the music. Louisiana accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco has died 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Only two months after her husband’s death, the famously private First Lady sat down with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and gave a breathtakingly personal view that has only now been made public. Galley Girl: A JFK Resurgance and a Year in Heaven 2011-11-21T09:55:55Z

As Malta’s leading art historian, Zerafa was something of a celebrity — a vivacious, outspoken priest and professor, always grinning, often appearing on television. The Maltese priest and the kidnapped Caravaggio: The amazing true story of the scrappy octogenarian who busted an audacious art heist 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

CROZET, Va. — You pick up a lot of skills after 79 years of being Leni Sorensen, perhaps America’s most unsung food historian. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

He succeeds the historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad, who left to become a professor at Harvard. The Poet Kevin Young Is Named New Director of Schomburg Center 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Cultural historian Elizabeth Wilson's book, Love Game, is a history of tennis. Author's tribute to tennis greats 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

He stayed for his Ph.D., with the music historian Paul Henry Lang as his mentor, as he researched early music and 19th-century Russian opera. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

A century ago, they were a must in a fashionable home, but New York design historian Emily Eerdmans says they are no longer status symbols. When old pianos must go, it’s a difficult parting — on many levels 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

His books are included in an alumni display case on campus and a picture of the historian hangs in Bienstock's classroom, along with vintage photos of Johnson. Caro returns to old high school to give award named for him 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Ken was born in Blacko, Lancashire, and attended Burnley College of Art and Leeds College of Art before becoming a visual arts teacher and historian. Ken Baird obituary 2013-07-04T15:09:54Z

In addition to the author/historian, a second narrator is Hriday, the saint’s nephew and bewildered disciple. ‘The Cauliflower’: The life of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

It was the first time I read an alternative to the story of my country as accepted by historians. Q&A: Richard Dreyfuss, actor – ‘I am the greatest kisser in the world’ 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

In "Winston's War," British historian Max Hastings says things about World War II that Americans don't often hear. 'Winston's War': A different take on Winston Churchill 2010-04-28T23:49:00Z

David Kennedy, a historian at Stanford University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945,” says Covid-themed museums and collections are a good idea. How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

In fact, historians suggest that there were perhaps a half million non-Jews who died in concentration camps. Critic?s Notebook: Making the Holocaust the Lesson on All Evils 2011-04-29T23:11:04Z

The list, in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., was digitized by Estevan Rael-Gálvez, a former New Mexico state historian and consultant to the museum who is assembling a database of Indigenous slaves. A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

“An unfathomable web of arcane mystery and liturgy, blurring so many lines no clergyman or historian or lawyer could ever untangle any of it.” Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ is best when viewed like separate little movies 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

The 10 authors of “Deep History” want to eliminate prehistory as a category and unchain historians from the word. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

Biggar’s Ethics and Empire project was the target of protest last year by students, an international coalition of academics, as well as 58 historians from Oxford itself. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Opry has endured as a vital element in the country music ecosystem by being nimble, according to performers, producers and country music historians. 5,000 Shows Later, the Grand Ole Opry Is Still the Sound of Nashville 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

Also important to him were histories of Chinese painting by Japanese art historians, which he translated into Chinese and which influenced his own writings. Art Review: Fu Baoshi, China?s Master Modernist, at Metropolitan Museum 2012-01-27T00:09:56Z

An art historian in Rome said choosing who can view the statue in full and who cannot creates a hierarchy. Art or censorship? Expo shows just top of famed David statue 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

They encouraged the engineer to apply for state and national status that would designate the property a historic building, but he wasn’t persuaded, Rothschild said, and the historians decided to return with a sharper pitch. Plotting the Future of the Most Storied Studio in Jazz 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

Only over the past decade has he been able to live off the proceeds of the sale of his work, according to Mr. Rider, the art historian. For Carl Andre, Less Is Still Less 2011-07-17T02:00:06Z

“His writings suggest he is one of the surviving romantic historians of an earlier, liberal school.” Hugh Thomas, Prodigious Author of Spanish History, Dies at 85 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Well, Max Hastings, who is a conservative historian, says exactly the same thing. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

Jefferson has been the more difficult character to embody, considering that the complicated president not only owned slaves, but most historians agree he fathered children with some of them. Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs Can’t Believe His Own Story 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Politicians and philanthropists, psychologists and historians play a huge role in the launching and waging of America's war on cancer and the examination of that war. PBS' 'Cancer' documentary cuts to the heart of the matter 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

But we see the adventurer and historian begin to evolve, courting danger in battle and then writing its history. Exhibition Review: ‘Churchill: The Power of Words,’ at the Morgan Library 2012-06-08T22:20:58Z

Susan F. Martin, a historian at Georgetown University, embraces the term even as she warns that it hides more than it reveals. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z

Citing the argument of the late Linda Nochlin, a feminist art historian, in her landmark essay, “Why Are There No Great Women Artists?,” These women are some of America’s greatest artists. Why don’t they get the respect they deserve? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Rome’s first emperor, according to one historian, allowed some comedian to crack wise about the imperial family. Book World: Mary Beard’s “Laughter in Ancient Rome” reveals history of humor

They meet food historian Ivan Day to discuss our age-old love of all meats avian, from swan to the arguably-a-bit-extravagant Yorkshire Christmas pie, which conceals within its pastry folds an obscene number of feathered creatures. TV highlights 01/04/2013 2013-04-01T05:59:02Z

In between takes, the park’s historian re-positioned people and changed clothing to ensure the authenticity of the event. History re-enacted for film in Appomattox 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Feist plans to post all 11,000 hours of audio on apolloinrealtime.org before the mission’s July anniversary, allowing armchair historians to hear audio as if they were sitting in any seat at mission control. Piecing Together the Visual and Audio Puzzle of ‘Apollo 11’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

How presidents deal with war is the subject of the historian Michael Beschloss’s latest work, a sweeping overview of presidents leading the United States through almost two centuries of conflict. Waging War From the Oval Office 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Although estimates of the number of people killed in the bombing vary greatly, town historians say local records show at least 120 deaths. Picasso's "Guernica" undergoes medical check 2012-02-24T11:01:05Z

The Princeton historian was intrigued to see an issue of the magazine devoted to slavery; his most recent book, "No Property in Man," explored the antislavery instincts of the nation's founders. How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

We know all this because the nephew wrote about the eruption and its aftermath some 30 years later in a pair of letters to the great Roman historian Tacitus. They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Oxford University historian Timothy Garton Ash, an outspoken opponent of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, is to receive the 2017 Charlemagne Prize conferred annually by the German city of Aachen. Oxford historian Garton Ash to receive Germany's Charlemagne prize 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

The brief moment was enough to spur criticism from internet critics and costume historians, who deemed it as a sign of disrespect. The 13 most buzzworthy fashion statements of 2022, ranked 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is working on "The Pioneers," the story of the first settlers of the Northwest Territory. McCullough book 'The Pioneers' scheduled for 2019 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Just as some historians have criticized “Hamilton” for playing down the founding fathers’ position as slave-owning elites, musicologists might argue that the show similarly misrepresents Hamilton’s cohort as musical populists. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

An art historian, who has left Paris in search of solitude and freedom, finds herself drawn back into a network of old friends, ’80s punk rockers now sliding into middle age. At New Directors/New Films, a Glimpse of the Otherworldly 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Each remastered LP is available individually, but the box contains a beautiful coffee-table book loaded with striking images and insightful text on the making of each album by Beatles historian Kevin Howlett. Top box sets, from the Beatles to Bill Withers 2012-12-10T16:42:00Z

Usually, these men are represented as all-American heroes, so many historians will welcome corrective portrayals. The Alamo: a cannon that fails to fire 2012-11-08T11:37:47Z

All the while, he remained a social justice activist, documentarian and cultural historian and in his 80s was taking pictures of the Black Lives Matter movement. Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

MI5 historian Christopher Andrew said the FBI's red-hating chief, J. Edgar Hoover, privately denounced Chaplin as "one of Hollywood's parlor Bolsheviks." British spies stumped by Charlie Chaplin mystery 2012-02-17T00:02:10Z

Her discovery made waves among historians when it was announced by state and federal officials at a news conference at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Md., on Tuesday morning. Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

In an interview on its website, the Civil War historian David Blight refers to a “rage in our culture to memorialize,” one unmatched, he suggests, in modern times. Recalling Sept. 11 by Inverting a Museum’s Usual Role 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

No wonder Game of Thrones has been such a success – and that historians can relish it as much as anyone. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z

This is unimpeachably good history that is directly attributable to Oliver Stone’s not being a great historian. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z

Journals and diaries are crucial to historians trying to understand the past — become part of history by writing down your experience. 36 Hours in … Wherever You Are 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

“It’s still referred to by some historians as the forgotten pandemic, because how many Americans are conscious of it today?” said Robert Hicks, the museum’s director. From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918’s deadly flu 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

It is an insult to baseball fans, historians, sports writers and especially to those baseball players who sacrificed and brought the game into the 21st century. R.I.P. Marvin Miller, baseball’s FDR 2012-11-28T17:26:00Z

The cultural politics of the 1970s is irresistible to historians, the way the decade’s dance music is irresistible to D.J.’s at weddings. Books of The Times: Carter, Reagan and Freaky Times 2011-02-15T22:00:07Z

As a historian, he kept one foot in the ivory tower and the other in the popular arena, a stance that did not always endear him to either side. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

That will seriously cripple future historians and anyone wanting to find out how government works. Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain by Christopher Moran – review 2013-01-10T08:00:01Z

Maeve serves in loco parentis, but she also becomes a kind of historian for Danny because she remembers so much more. Review | 'The Dutch House,' by Ann Patchett book review 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

First ladies are what “our visitors are really most keen on seeing,” said Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, the museum’s senior historian and director of history, research and scholarly programs. National Portrait Gallery Show to Bring First Ladies into Focus 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Even when a century old and almost entirely blind, Mrs. Mellon’s eye never relented, said Ms. Griswold, the garden historian and a Mellon intimate. Inside Bunny Mellon’s World 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

“I feel strongly that students should be exposed to art historians who work closely with actual works of art,” Mr. Elderfield said. A Centennial for Asian Art at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Well see, again that is a question that a historian is not allowed to answer,” Aslan stated. Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The gospels are absolutely replete with historical errors and with contradictions” 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Dabo ended up estranged from his family, and he has largely fallen off the radar of art historians. Antiques: Restoration Project: A History of Leon Dabo 2012-07-19T20:19:07Z

This is the sort of thing that gives historians a rampant case of the smugs, because if we were commanding the operation we would have spotted it. Full Metal Jacket: history unzipped 2010-06-24T08:46:00Z

“It is always worth visiting the graves of historians,” Mr. Gilbert told an interviewer. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

As a historian of colonial America and scholar of American public holidays, I’ve long worked to separate history from myth and fact from fiction, and to help tell the stories of diverse Americans. A time for everyone: Why Thanksgiving really is a holiday for pluralists 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

“Many of the audience members had never, ever seen a slave, let alone been to the slave South,” the historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar says. Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z

The museum, which opened in December, is a sweeping homage to what historians say was one of the greatest cities in the world between the ninth and 15th centuries . Cambodia’s New Angkor Museum, Created by a North Korean Art Factory 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Gaucharan Das, the management consultant turned historian, echoed this sentiment while waiting in line at the book party for Mr. Ghosh to sign his copy of “River of Smoke.” ArtsBeat: Indian Fiction Rising 2011-07-06T13:53:24Z

Mark Dunton, a historian at Britain's National Archives, which published the documents, said the scale of Fonteyn's personal involvement had not been publicly known until the release of the documents. Ballerina's clumsy role in coup attempt detailed 2010-05-30T05:46:00Z

And the work is filled with so many references to Renaissance painting, there is so much mysterious iconography, that for art historians it’s just fascinating.” George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 2011-03-29T20:32:21Z

These and many more contemporary images of the body feature in a lavishly illustrated new book by art historian Frances Borzello called The Naked Nude. Naked or nude? Laying bare an artistic divide 2012-11-28T16:53:35Z

The eminent Civil War historian James M. McPherson said Freeman’s biography did “more to shape our image of Lee — indeed of the Civil War — than perhaps any other work.” Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The abuses were uncovered by a historian who by chance came across notes in the archives of the University of Pittsburgh. Rules Meant to Protect Human Research Subjects Cause Concern 2011-10-23T22:37:05Z

Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian gone rogue, who sets out to steal the Declaration of Independence, which supposedly holds the key to priceless treasure. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Family Romance, LLC’ and Fireworks 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

The Gardner was careful to consult African-American art historians, community leaders and others to ensure the exhibition was done sensitively. John Singer Sargent’s Secret Muse 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

"Valley Vista" came about because the San Fernando Valley can't catch a break, says art historian and Valley native Damon Willick, who curated the show and penned an illuminating companion book by the same name. 'Valley Vista' at Cal State Northridge takes a stand for Valley art 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

“You want to have a Southern antebellum wedding — where does that come from?” said Kellie Carter Jackson, a historian at Wellesley College who teaches a course on slavery and film. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Years ago, I read the Library of America’s terrific “The Debate on the Constitution,” a two-volume set edited by historian Bernard Bailyn that tells the story of ratification in something akin to real time. Some alternate Americas for the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Now it’s Mr. Clooney’s turn as Frank Stokes, an art historian and the story’s hub, to lead a charmingly quirky crew in a World War II operation to rescue Europe’s artistic treasures from the Nazis. Movie Review: Clooney and Company Hunt for Treasures in ‘Monuments Men’ 2014-02-06T22:43:48Z

IN 2010 an amateur Icelandic historian gatecrashed an international symposium on the Lewis chessmen, the greatest cache of medieval game pieces ever found. Bones of contention 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Unless historians were at the events they describe then they're only dealing with mediations – with surviving sources that mediate the past. Letters: History curriculum needs wider input 2010-06-02T23:05:00Z

The museum worked with 60 native historians and experts to interpret many of the objects, selected for their aesthetic, cultural and historic importance. Expansive Native American exhibit opening in NYC 2010-10-22T11:10:00Z

"Its combination of the eminently readable and the profoundly authentic is all the more remarkable as the achievement of a writer who is not herself a professional art historian." Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-07-27T21:47:01Z

Hess, a Civil War historian at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, emphasizes that the Union troops were seasoned, confident and well supplied. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

These recent weeks have seen the publication of five books about death: one by a historian; two by hospice workers; one by a widow; one by a man who is dying himself. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Charlotte was back on stage later in the day, interviewing another ancient historian, Richard Miles, about the rise and fall of Carthage. Hay festival 2010: Wednesday at Hay 2010-06-03T11:58:00Z

It is historian Frank Saul's contention that it isn't boldness and daring that wins wars, it's having all the right equipment in the right places at the right time. TV review: MotherTruckers; Bullets, Boots and Bandages; Inside Men 2012-02-09T23:10:01Z

This would surely surprise any historian of European colonies in Africa or the Americas. Nicholas Wade’s ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

“The phenomenon of Little Havana today is of relatively recent vintage,” said Paul George, professor of history at Miami Dade College and historian at HistoryMiami, a nonprofit that works to preserve Miami’s cultural past. In Miami, Cuban Culture, No Passport Required 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The historian, whose new book is “If Then,” got a hand-me-down copy of “Little Women” from her mother. The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

“The unionization of music in the United States has a mixed history,” says Ted Gioia, a music historian, jazz pianist and former corporate executive. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z

Ms. Zabar, a lawyer and art historian, recounts the relative comfort the Zabarkas enjoyed in Ukraine as well as the antisemitic atrocities they suffered. The History of Zabar’s, With Family Photos and Recipes 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

Cyrte won't disclose how much it spent on Hammer, but one thing is clear: "The new Hammer is far richer than the old Hammer," says British film historian and screenwriter David Pirie. Is Hammer Films Back from the Dead? 2010-12-09T09:00:00Z

As Bowien explains, his offerings are neither pure nor authentic; his approach is “profane” by design, turned up to eleven, Chinese food made not by “experts or historians” but by loyal “fans.” Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

A historian at Yale University has made a detailed study of where Jews were in most danger during the second world war. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Reconciling a long history of disruptive, sometimes thrilling, social expression with a scholarly appetite for themes will always be problematic for the historian. Sorry! The English and Their Manners by Henry Hitchings – review 2013-01-27T08:00:01Z

"Tim O'Brien's fiction about Vietnam, which derives from his own experience as a soldier, is haunting, evocative and wonderfully inventive," historian Rick Atkinson, the 2011 award winner, said in a statement. Author Tim O'Brien wins Pritzker award for military writing 2013-06-25T17:35:56Z

The germ for the movie is “A Short History of Progress,” which, as the name announces, is an exceedingly compressed examination of human times from the Canadian novelist and historian Ronald Wright. | 'Surviving Progress': ?Surviving Progress,? Based on Ronald Wright Book 2012-04-05T23:07:51Z

LeMay was instead, in the words of the military historian Conrad Crane, “the Air Force’s ultimate problem solver.” Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth Kendall is a dance critic and historian. New York City’s Gift of Motion: A 1970s Tale 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

And in nonfiction: “Six Encounters with Lincoln,” a new perspective on the president by the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor, who sadly died prior to the book’s publication. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

On a recent tour of the museum Mr. Bast, 74, a lifelong Boonsboro resident and the town’s unofficial historian, suggested another reason to visit Boonsboro in May. Nora Roberts Sparks Up Maryland?s Civil War Country 2010-04-29T22:12:00Z

Scholars and historians have not been able to settle on its origins or settings. The live-action ‘Mulan’ is not the first retelling of the legend. Or the second. Or the sixth. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

History has provided Follett with some spectacular dramatic moments, and he takes full advantage, recreating them with a historian’s eye for detail and a novelist’s gift for narrative suspense. Review | Ken Follett returns once again to Kingsbridge in ‘A Column of Fire’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Reyes wrote about her harrowing early life in this series of letters to the Colombian historian and critic Germán Arciniegas, who urged her to put the riveting tales she would speak aloud down on paper. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Contrary to the opinions of some historians, Hamilton was not at fault for what was nothing more than an accident. Inside Alexander Hamilton's first Revolutionary War battle 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

The first professional historians of the era were mostly former leftwing activists themselves. The last great “Mad Men” debate: Who won the ’60s, the hippies or Ronald Reagan? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Art historians theorize that the Van Campens, thinking their family was complete, commissioned the painting at some celebratory moment, but later were compelled to add their new child. ‘Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion’ Review: Piecing Together the Van Campen Clan 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

Introducing classic movies on TCM with the host and film historian Robert Osborne, Mr. Baldwin defers to the older man’s knowledge and judgment — and respectfully comments on films with luminous intelligence himself. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z

The first time, according to an Academy historian, was in 2007, with two wins for “Dreamgirls,” best supporting actress and sound mixing, and one for Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland.” The Carpetbagger: Will We Be Calling It the ’12 Years’ Effect? 2014-03-04T16:55:26Z

“I do consider myself somewhat of a sax historian,” Mr. Catalano said. Chicago News Cooperative: A Home Where ?Strike Up the Band? Is No Idle Order 2011-08-07T06:45:06Z

This popular historian marinates herself in intensive research, but she doesn’t show off. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z

He quoted an Oxford historian, Colin Lucas, giving the colourful detail that the monarch "enjoyed a reign of dissolution with his catamite, Piers Gaveston" at the palace. Boris Johnson: Eddie Mair did 'a splendid job' 2013-03-25T21:12:56Z

What I find most fascinating, as a historian of American slavery, is how her belief in God helped Tubman remain fearless, even when she came face to face with many challenges. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

Yet the most ambitious role he plays is not as a comedy mentor or amateur historian, but as a performer. On Keegan-Michael Key’s Podcast, a Provocative Case for Sketch Comedy 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Recently, however, historians have moved away from such self-justifying accounts, and a growing field has made the experiences of indigenous displacement, survival and resurgence a new pathway for understanding the nation’s history. A New History of Native Americans Responds to ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

The well-known reticence of Leonardo, whose notebooks were not published until the late 19th century, and the scarcity of his work have made him elusive prey for the art historian. A. Richard Turner Dies at 79; Wrote ?Inventing Leonardo? 2011-09-23T04:55:22Z

In it, Christopher Tyerman , an Oxford historian, looks at the thinking that went into a crusade — how it was justified, supported, peopled, financed and supplied. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

But radio is unmatched when it comes to capturing moments from history: a 1938 report from newly occupied Czechoslovakia, pointing to "swastikas and fairy lights" says more than any historian. Celebrating 90 years on air: the best moments of speech radio 2012-11-13T11:12:21Z

She knows the mayor and local historian, brings her family to pancake breakfasts at the firehouse and attends town council meetings to vote on issues like water treatment. Mary Stuart Masterson, Actress and Beekeeper 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

"I am Italian and that is not a translation. It is a falsification," Massimo Faggioli, a theologian and historian who is writing about the assembly said in a Tweet. Vatican waters down gay references in translation of divisive paper 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Art historians rediscovered him in the 1920s, but soon muddied his biography with legends and typos. Antiques: Condemning Slavery With a Paintbrush 2011-07-14T21:51:43Z

His story is usually offered as illustrative of the fractious nature of the motley Dutch colony, long seen as “a collection of losers and scalawags,” as the historian Russell Shorto once put it. Brooklyn’s Muslim Presence Goes Back Centuries. Here’s Proof From 1643. 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Based in London, it was founded earlier this year by a French graphic design historian, Anna Gerber, and a Danish branding specialist, Britt Iversen. The Invincible Book Keeps Reinventing Itself 2010-10-24T11:30:00Z

In 1983 Mr. Steinberg became the first art historian to receive an award for literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Leo Steinberg, Adventurous Art Historian, Dies at 90 2011-03-14T23:19:13Z

An added benefit is the liveliness of Rose’s annotations of the paintings, which are peppered with striking observations from sundry art historians, curators and critics, artists, the artist himself and others. Leon Kossoff: Looking at Life With a Loaded Brush 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Picking up steam as he described each instrument, Mr. Catalano proved himself an astute historian as well as an amateur metallurgist. Chicago News Cooperative: A Home Where ?Strike Up the Band? Is No Idle Order 2011-08-07T06:45:06Z

For casual fans of the marque and for automotive historians, Mr. Leffingwell’s latest volume will be a worthwhile addition. Books: A Time to Turn Pages Instead of Corners 2012-12-09T04:17:17Z

One of the students, an art historian, explains that Cezanne “wanted to paint only the impressions of what he saw: light, space, color.” In ‘The Sunken Cathedral,’ Kate Walbert evokes Virginia Woolf 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

How far can historians based in the US truly understand the daily problems encountered by history teachers and lecturers here? Letters: History curriculum needs wider input 2010-06-02T23:05:00Z

Members came off not only as deep experts, but as historians and legal scholars and even moral philosophers as well, all very aware of the historic import of their task. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

There are few revelations for historians in this book. The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The British historian Lucy Worsley hosts this holiday program, which explores what Christmas looked like in England during the Tudor period. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Togo’ and ‘The Witcher’ 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

“High Country Crags and Moon” bears some marks of early Adams, but even as an art historian and avid backpacker, I find the image hard to understand. When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

According to David Metzer, a popular music historian and professor of musicology at the University of British Columbia, there are several components; the first is rooted in the tradition of musical borrowing. The infinite remix potential of "Old Town Road" 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

We asked a group of historians and educators to talk about what they thought was essential for people to understand about the history leading up to 9/11. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

“Mad Men,” an acclaimed show that explored a bygone era, will itself be grist for future cultural historians, thanks to a donation to the University of Texas at Austin. ‘Mad Men’ Archives Going to the University of Texas 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

“But that debate doesn’t really capture what historians do, which is to bring more history.” Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

He said, "If you're a historian, your job is to help people understand not just what they want to remember, but what they need to remember." ‘You can’t be a historian of black America without being hopeful,’ says Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

“I think his biggest measure of acceptability was irreverence,” the dance historian Elizabeth Kendall said, “which translated into the personality is stronger than the step.” What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

“This is emphatically not a book intended to be seen only,” the historian Albert Hoxie wrote in The Los Angeles Times, noting its “major text of impeccable and up-to-the-minute scholarship.” A. Richard Turner Dies at 79; Wrote ?Inventing Leonardo? 2011-09-23T04:55:22Z

In his thrilling “The March of the Barbarians,” Lamb, both an adventure novelist and a historian, focuses on the Mongol incursions into China, High Asia and Europe. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

"The bottom line - it's still controversial, nothing's done," said White, the historian at Xavier. New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push 2011-01-07T11:01:04Z

A music historian pays homage to 10 pieces of classical music, combing through different genres, parts of Europe and the lives of musical luminaries. Newly Published, From Musical Masterpieces to the End of Trump’s Presidency 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

The British historian Arnold J. Toynbee once wrote that never was there a crop of genius such as was produced here in the colonial era. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z

“It is definitely a cautionary tale,” said Valerie Steele, the fashion historian and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Taking a Hard Spill in Designer Shoes 2012-08-01T20:19:05Z

Can one become a historian merely by pressing a button? ‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ Review: A VCR Obsession 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Two of her most unexpected witnesses are the African American historian W.E.B. Review | Nazi Germany as a travel destination: A new book explores how Hitler duped tourists 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Labor historians, Broadway producers and executives at the nonprofit performance institutions chalk up the union’s power to two major factors: that Local 1’s members have hard-to-replace skills, and that their jobs cannot easily be outsourced. Hey, Stars, Be Nice to the Stagehands. You Might Need a Loan. 2013-12-28T02:11:03Z

A child of the Internet, Yams was a hip-hop historian and a master brander. Review | A$AP Mob continues the legacy of the New York hip-hop crew 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The two authors argue for the historic importance of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an international agreement usually dismissed by historians as ineffectual and quixotic. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Rashauna Johnson, a historian of the 19th-century African diaspora at the University of Chicago, said that Black history had arisen “in response to” racist dominant narratives, in the academy and the wider world. As Historians Gather, No Truce in the History Wars 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

Wilentz, who is White, had not succeeded in getting any Black historians to sign on to his letter. How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

If a history is like a circle, its circumference and its center are determined by the historian. Salvatore Scibona on the Difference Between Fiction and History 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

“They are places that are not within the reach of historians or journalists.” Review | Much-disputed political assassinations form the framework of ‘The Shape of the Ruins’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

SAT Program and reception on past and present Native Seattle with local historian David Buerge and Duwamish Tribal leaders, 6 p.m. Community calendar 2012-10-03T19:44:10Z

While Logan’s reputation as a hatchet man is well-deserved, his often hilarious vituperations have long obscured his talents as a close reader and literary historian. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Anglophiles, historians, intellectuals and aesthetes will embrace the Anthology Film Archives retrospective of the filmmaker Patrick Keiller, running through Wednesday. | 'Robinson in Ruins': ?Robinson in Ruins? From Patrick Keiller ? Review? 2012-01-11T22:49:41Z

For all these reasons, and more specifically because it is about the strange entanglements of history and memory, nostalgia should be as interesting to historians as to psychologists and sociologists. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z

Hands off my wife, you seedy art-dealing historian travelling salesman character! Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode four – dangerously close to an actual plot 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

A new generation of social historians analyzed the concerns of marginalized groups — workers, women, free and enslaved African-Americans, and Native Americans, among others. Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

That fact and others about the neighborhood will be covered on a tour led by James Renner, an urban historian. Spare Times for Sept. 28-Oct. 4 2012-09-27T21:34:07Z

Andrew Hager, historian for the online Presidential Pet Museum, attributes the disparity to personality — both the presidents’ and the cats’. The Bidens finally have a White House cat. World, meet Willow. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

With too many historians still regarding the defense of white historical figures as more important than truth, Du Bois’s prophesy remains relevant today. Ibram X. Kendi Likes to Read at Bedtime 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

But, argues an Indian historian, Ramachandra Guha, in the introduction to this entertaining and illuminating collection of essays, “the politics matters just as much as the economics.” No unity in diversity 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

It was an approach that left historians with a puzzle. Donald Weinstein, Influential Historian on the Renaissance, Dies at 89 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

The artist, photographer, and historian Deborah Willis, who wrote the foreword to the exhibition catalogue, reads in the details of the frames “self-creation . . . joy . . . and a spirit of playfulness.” The Democratic Vision of a Lost and Found Early-Twentieth-Century Portrait Photographer 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Both remain fully clad, so the film stays just on the right side of picky historians: there is no proof Elizabeth ever stopped being the Virgin Queen. Mary, Queen of Scots: who sexed up this royal soap opera's dossier? 2011-02-04T09:15:00Z

The historians and guides are so smart, so engaged with the history; they still refer to him as Mr. Jefferson as if he’s there. Q&A: Richard Linklater on America’s Ignored Monuments 2012-08-24T20:33:56Z

“Patrick French’s book radiates common sense,” the historian Philip Ziegler wrote in The Daily Telegraph of Britain. Patrick French, Unsparing Biographer of V.S. Naipaul, Dies at 56 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Many historians I admire admit to such moments, although those admissions are to be made only in private and to other similarly afflicted historians or students. Slave trader’s home, slum, des res: the stories of one house raise restless ghosts 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

Though this is fascinating for art historians, it’s perhaps not what an auctioneer — or a billionaire collector — wants to hear about a painting valued at more than €100 million. Is That a Real Caravaggio? It’s All in the Detail 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Berlin the liberal political philosopher and Deutscher the Marxist historian were both asylum seekers, given refuge and residence in Britain during the early decades of the last century. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z

“The show certainly celebrates characters we wish we had on the national stage now, but it’s also a cautionary tale,” said the historian Ron Chernow, whose biography of Hamilton inspired the musical. ‘Hamilton’ Puts Politics Onstage and Politicians in Attendance 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

As a food historian, I hope to debunk some myths and explore some little-known aspects of the Mexican spirit that’s become a global phenomenon. 3 questions about tequila, answered 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Prof. Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia and Dr. Mark Bateson, a community historian, found the charter in December while delving into local archives. Unearthed From Town's Archives: Copy of Magna Carta From 1300 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

So it’s appropriate that the exhibition — organized by Belinda Thomson, a British art historian, and Mary Morton, curator of French paintings at the National Gallery — opens with self-portraits. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z

Young scholars, many of them students of those historians, are finding the same stimulation in contemporary work. Under Threat: The Shock of the Old 2011-04-15T02:50:03Z

“He was a great fighter and not so good at making nice,” author and historian David O. Stewart said of Johnson. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

How much resemblance Maya bears to reality – indeed, whether the equivalent real-life character is even a woman – are questions difficult for historians to answer conclusively while CIA secrecy remains in place. Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z

The first concerns the 1885 suicide of Clover Adams, wife of the American historian Henry Adams and founding member of an elite social circle called The Five Hearts. ‘The Fifth Heart,’ by Dan Simmons 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Halliday, a historian, begins by surveying the simple but effective methods of waste disposal in the ancient world — Mesopotamia, India, Greece and Rome. Three New Books Will Take You to Places You’ve Never Gone Before 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The commentary, from film historians and a large group of middle-aged and older veterans of the business, can be obvious and repetitive. | 'American Grindhouse': Exploitation 101 2011-02-04T01:23:01Z

In such breakdowns, the film historian is brilliant in her ability to rhetorically diagram both the critical and emotional components of these movies' relationship to the family writ large in society. Sex and the cinema girl: Karina Longworth dives into '80s and '90s erotic films, revealing herself 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z

But they have been roundly condemned by professional military historians as "conceptually empty". Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z

Expertly designed with numerous photos, maps and schemata, it would please the armchair military historian in your family, or someone who just can't accept the fact that the Lord of the Rings trilogy is over. 22 gift books for ardent readers 2011-12-01T20:30:48Z

Christine Eyene, an art historian and one of the judges for this year’s prize, said at the news conference that Pollard’s work, had “for decades uncovered stories and histories hidden in plain sight.” Black Artists Lead Turner Prize Shortlist 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Those discoveries, which began with chickens, created “what we choose to call industrialized agriculture”, a poultry historian living in Georgia proudly wrote in 1971. Read this and you may never eat chicken again 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

This is the first and, to date, the only novel by Mr. Ruge, 59, who was born in the Urals and, like Alexander Umnitzer, is the son of a prominent East German historian. Books of The Times: ‘In Times of Fading Light’ Spans Generations in Germany 2013-08-13T19:37:43Z

In “BackStory,” which joined Panoply’s podcast network this year, historians draw connections between current events and the past, throwing out “the history you had to learn” in favor of “the history you want to learn.” You Know Your History? These Podcasts Aren’t So Sure 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

The tracks between Chama and Antonito were about to be ripped up when historians and railroad enthusiasts began looking at ways to save the line. Who needs a railroad museum? You can ride these circa-1870 rails yourself. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

As food historian Michael Twitty writes, "If there is any American vegetable that screams African-American, it's the collard green." Get to know collard greens 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gentry had wide-ranging interests as a historian. Historian Curt Gentry, known for Hoover biography and ‘Helter Skelter,’ dies at 83

Based partly on historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," Spielberg's film is enormously entertaining yet professorial at times. Underdog 'Argo' continues on charmed Oscar path 2013-01-31T14:14:10Z

“Kentuckians imagined themselves as the last remaining spokespeople with political power for a defeated South,” the historian said. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

“The museum has better things to do than to make the case for women artists by beating up on Picasso,” the art historian Robert Storr said. Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did. 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Dr. Muhammad, a historian, said the most widely circulated images of that period show African-Americans in dire poverty or being lynched. ‘Envisioning Emancipation’: Book Documents Slavery’s End 2012-12-21T22:48:45Z

There is no exploitation here--only the fortuitous marriage of a great scholar and historian with a rare archival find. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

These studies and projects also seem to promote the idea that computer scientists are more adept at historical research than art historians. How AI is hijacking art history 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

It also ignores the historian Joseph Needham’s description of Chinese attempts as early as the first century. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z

Pioneering social historians had been studying working people since the early 20th century, but the focus remained squarely on the tangible, the measurable, the "significant" – wages, living conditions, unions, strikes, Chartists. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z

“I am a fanatic about El Cerro,” he told me after handing me a book on the Hill of the Star written by a local historian. In Mexico City, Exploring a Volcano Sacred to the Aztecs 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

The writers Jonathan Lethem and Ray Bradbury are “great,” as are the historian Gordon S. Wood and the political thinker Edmund Burke. Review: Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

He is widely believed to have been disembowelled with a red-hot poker, though some historians suggest suffocation was a more likely cause of death. Edward II: Derek Jarman's striking reflection on homophobia 2012-08-16T11:00:05Z

And yet, to any historian who knows about the battle, Drury's fury is wrong on any number of counts. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z

Despite the hopes for reopenings, jazz historian Tammy Kernodle, who teaches at Miami University of Ohio, says something is lost when clubs vacate their original spaces. Jazz venues have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. They are hoping the worst is over. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

To some historians, the fracas represented an embarrassing abandonment of scholarly prudence amid a social media stampede. Clash of the Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Mr Sharpe is a crime historian of many years and his book’s strength lies in its scope, which allows the reader to survey the changes and customs of English society. Killing fields 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The museum had been working with historians in the Czech Republic since 2016 to evaluate the history and provenance of the shield, officials said in a news release. Renaissance Shield With an Afterlife in World Wars Is Returning to Europe 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

He is also a former president of the historians society. Historian Charles King wins Francis Parkman Prize 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

"Stuff that's in the vault is very valuable and very important to collectors and historians and music lovers," he said. 'Scuse me? Hendrix bandmate sues over '03 release 2010-07-13T12:01:00Z

He fell in with a group of Western gay men, including the film historian Donald Richie, who were sexual exiles, able to live more freely in Japan than in the United States or England. How Life as a Foreigner Helped Shape a Man of Letters 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

There appear to be a few assertions in “The Train to Crystal City” that historians may quibble with. ‘The Train to Crystal City’: a WWII detainees camp in Texas 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

The new society, officially formed this summer, aims to further raise the profile of intellectual history, even if job listings for intellectual historians remain scarce. ArtsBeat Blog: Embattled Intellectual Historians Make a Stand 2011-11-22T13:00:04Z

It happened in 1924 when Calvin Coolidge showed that he was a natural on the radio, which many historians believe helped him win the presidency. Political GIFs Are the New Sound Bites This Campaign Season 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

"As an historian, I was really blown away by it," says Harris. Inside the "The Beatles: Get Back to Let It Be": An interview with Rock Hall of Fame historians 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

Soon after, the globe-trotting D.J. and music historian DJ Rupture wrote about the scene in an article in The Fader, covering teenage parties in Monterrey attended by thousands. New Music: ?Glory,? by Jay-Z - Review?Int?ntalo,? by 3ballMTY - ReviewSnow Patrol?s ?Fallen Empires? - Review 2012-01-09T23:43:41Z

He met with 17th-century agricultural experts and colonial historians and pored through religious diaries, letters and Puritan prayer manuals from the time, often using bits of dialogue verbatim for the script. The Witch: ‘Good horror is taking a look at what’s dark in humanity’ 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

While his pub-rock legacy became something of an obsession for rock connoisseurs and historians, Mr. Johnson experienced an unlikely career renaissance after his 2013 cancer scare. Wilko Johnson, Scorching Guitarist and Punk Pioneer, Dies at 75 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Dotaku bells such as this one still puzzle historians, but we know they were made without clappers and buried in earth, probably as part of a ritual designed to bless crops. How the Silence Makes the Music 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

At No. 9 is the book in front of us now: the British historian Graham Robb’s admiring “Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris.” Books of the Times: ?Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris,? by Graham Robb 2010-04-27T21:30:00Z

Miller wrote that, despite what historians think, he was given a “strong intuition” that “Phaistos was the female stronghold of the Minos family.” In Crete, Henry Miller Found His Muse Amid the Ruins 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Words, by historians present and past, are spoken aloud or scroll on the screen. Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Picasso produced works that historians and critics consider masterpieces, but he rarely set out to create one. Art Review: What the Peripatetic Picasso Kept in His Closets 2011-03-10T23:11:06Z

James Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust and an evangelist for the use of technology by art historians, assessed “Recognition” as a “well-meaning and an interesting experiment.“ Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art and Reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which is located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, sends ballots to more than 1,000 artists, historians and members of the music industry to select inductees. British rock, female artists dominate Rock Hall of Fame induction 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Some historians think the cajón was developed by Africans who were brought to Peru as slaves. Get a taste of Peru at Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Combining subtle reenactments — shots that suggest the key players rather than show them outright — archival footage, and interviews with historians, friends, and distant relations, "The Windsors" follows a comfortingly familiar format. Why can't we quit the royals? CNN's new series "The Windsors" show why they rule 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

François-Joseph Graf is as much a historian as he is a designer. Fendi Casa partners with decorator François-Joseph Graf 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Some historians say debates can decide an election. Who will win the presidential election? That’s up for debate. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

“It hinted at her shape, but it didn’t give away too many naughty bits,” said Rachel Elspeth Gross, a writer and amateur fashion historian who recently posted an image of Ms. Agnelli on Instagram. Woke or Not, the Caftan Is Sexy 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

The growth of areas such as history of medicine and madness through the work of historians such as Roy Porter and Michel Foucault was making the body a rich topic for academics. Syphilis, sex and fear 2013-05-17T15:59:01Z

Last year, she generated headlines by writing on Facebook that her great-uncle was misogynistic and racist — assertions some Disney historians and family members dispute. Abigail Disney Builds a Dialogue on Gun Control 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

In a different way, Michael Burleigh has all the attributes of a great historian – except largesse of spirit. Small Wars, Far Away Places by Michael Burleigh – review 2013-04-27T15:30:01Z

Mr. Mallon has found surprising perspectives from which to look at it and a way of siphoning emphasis away from the turf already trampled by historians. Review: ‘Finale’ by Thomas Mallon Moves Past ‘Watergate’ and Into the Reagan Era 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

This is the subject of a discussion at 7 p.m. with Joshua Eli Plaut, a historian and author of “A Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis the Season to be Jewish,” released in October by Rutgers University Press. Spare Times for Dec. 14-20 2012-12-13T23:01:49Z

Mr. Burns had been inspired to tell the story of the Brooklyn Bridge by the 1972 book “The Great Bridge,” by the historian David McCullough, who provided narration for the documentary. Amy Stechler, Documentarian Who Helped Define a Style, Dies at 67 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Scouting stores in London, Ms. Piaggi became acquainted with Vern Lambert, a fashion historian and a major dealer of vintage clothes, whom she credited with sparking her interest in collecting. Anna Piaggi, Italian Fashion Editor, Dies at 81 2012-08-07T21:27:03Z

The canal provides 10,000 jobs, according to the historian who spoke to us. Spotting sloths and harpy eagles in Panama’s nature-rich rain forest 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

I was heartened when I came across a comment by philosopher and historian Jean-Pierre Dupuy: "It was inevitable that meaning would force its way back in." James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z

A historian and a philosopher of science, she is a witty, elegant writer with no nonsense about her. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

Here, scientists, historians and enthusiasts give their take on the find. TV highlights 27/02/2013 2013-02-27T07:00:10Z

It was not until the 1920s that German art historians began to reassess Borromini, and only in the 1940s that his genius was revived and restored. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

Michael Peppiatt, the art historian who became close to Giacometti’s family while living in Paris in 1966, has organized the exhibition. Inside Art: A Museum Exhibition Assembled on the Fly 2010-10-14T21:32:00Z

Robert Mullally, one of the few historians to write extensively on the carole, explains that no such manuals or treatises exist that are dated before the 15th century. A "House of the Dragon" wedding celebration turns into a crime scene, mainly due to the dancing 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

That will please many, but it's a shame: almost as bad as being a Protestant historian, rather than an historian who is a Protestant. Saints, Sacrilege & Sedition by Eamon Duffy - review 2012-07-27T21:55:05Z

He is also a professor at the University of California at San Diego, and a historian of politics. Political adviser/historian tells why campaigns, voters matter 2012-06-14T20:42:03Z

Ambrose may have been an academically trained historian, but he seemed to pride himself on being a hagiographer. ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

And the perspective of King George VI, who was, from the viewpoint of any conventional historian, a completely irrelevant figure, is an unusual vantage point. Great Oscar debate: What is the real best picture? 2011-02-26T01:01:00Z

David Robinson is a film critic and historian and director emeritus of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Review | A rare look at 60 years of newspaper advertising for motion pictures 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

Despite a consensus among historians that the killings amounted to genocide, Turkish leaders reject that characterization and call them a tragic unplanned result of war. Review: In ‘With You, Armenia,’ Kissin and Others Honor the Slaughtered 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

“I think there’s a resistance to the idea that you can be a good biographer and good historian and also a good novelist,” Ackroyd says. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z

The historian and the critic in him are in elegant synchronicity. Review: ‘James Merrill: Life and Art,’ a Literary Biography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

There are no details of exactly when it was found, but historians assume the farmer sold it to the history loving wealthy family at The Vyne. Is this the Hobbit's magic ring? 2013-04-01T23:01:00Z

“She is an absolute tour de force,” said the art historian Nina Miall, who worked with Ms. Sviblova on the London show. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Russia's Photo Impresario 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z

Image-based graffiti is not unheard of in Kabul, but much of it is created by Afghan and U.S. soldiers, says street art historian G. James Daichendt, author of "Stay Up! Los Angeles Street Art." Afghan woman risks all to bring color to war-torn Kabul with her street art and feminist murals 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

But “Mountains and Sea” did establish many of the traits that have informed her art from the beginning, the art historian E. A. Carmean Jr. suggested. Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter, Dies at 83 2011-12-27T15:27:38Z

“It’s a really fun way to expose myself to music, to learn about the history, to play amateur historian,” he said. Vinyl records surge during pandemic, keeping sales spinning 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

“The locus of most medical care would have been the home,” said the historian Jane Stevens Crawshaw of Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England, who studies the history of health care. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Never have I better understood the historian Daniel J. Boorstin’s comment that “the printing press could disseminate, but it could not retrieve.” ‘A Curious History of Sex’ Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The medical historians and nursing professors we contacted had never heard of Hernandez. The power of Purell compels you! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

"He's got all the power," says social historian Dr Helen Berry whose book The Castrato And His Wife will be published by Oxford University Press next year. History's lessons to The X Factor 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z

Lincoln historian James Cornelius is holding President Lincoln’s hat: Here, we see Lincoln’s trademark stovepipe hat, crafted from beaver pelt to ensure a waterproof finish. Photos From Inside Abraham Lincoln?s Vault 2012-02-15T14:02:12Z

But he is also emblematic of a new generation of young black historians who are working collaboratively to create new institutions, and find new ways of reaching the public. Ibram X. Kendi Has a Cure for America’s ‘Metastatic Racism’ 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Over 100 historians vented their anger in an open letter printed in the Times Higher. Cribsheet 26.08.11 2011-08-26T12:29:20Z

Bernard Berenson, the Renaissance art historian who befriended Bradbury after the author sent him a copy of “Fahrenheit 451,” warned Bradbury of the consequences of his decisions, even as he was making them, Eller notes. Review: ‘Ray Bradbury Unbound’ by Jonathan R. Eller

Critics, including some reviewers and historians, say “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West” romanticizes white expansion and downplays the atrocities and pain inflicted on Native Americans. McCullough’s new book on pioneers’ history draws criticism 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Thanks to a burgeoning population of historians, book-flogging authors and TV-ready firsthand witnesses, a ubiquitous social media culture and a voracious 24/7 news cycle, the fact-checking-industrial complex is clearly well entrenched. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

And for the last 20 years or so, the historians David Christian and Fred Spier have championed big history, urging their colleagues to begin their once-upon-a-time accounts billions of years ago, with the big bang. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

In particular, he expressed concerns with the accuracy of the findings of the series' Black journalists and historians. By snubbing Nikole Hannah-Jones, UNC buys into biased objectivity standards 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

Nine years ago, the Canadian historian Robert Morrison published a scholarly and engrossing life of England’s second most famous opium eater, Thomas De Quincey. Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights and Britain Becomes Modern 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The literary historian P. Gabrielle Foreman founded the Colored Conventions Project, a digital initiative that documents Black organizing efforts between 1830 and the 1890s. MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

“This idea of being a community organizer goes way back for Obama so what he is doing is really who he is,” said Burton Kaufman, historian and author of “The Post-Presidency From Washington to Clinton.” Even before he was president, Obama had big plans for his post-presidency 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

Though some historians are sceptical as to the importance of the deception, Macintyre insists that the contribution of the five central spies who partook in Operation Bodyguard was a key moment in the war. TV highlights 09/07/2012 2012-07-08T19:00:01Z

In an obituary on the website of the Institute for Advanced Study, Stanley N. Katz, a historian at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, called Mr. White “philosophy’s ambassador to history and the humanities.” Morton White, Philosopher of Holistic Pragmatism, Dies at 99 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

As the historian AJP Taylor once put it, when something is now very much in the past, it is hard to remember that it was once still in the future. Mel Gibson: the year of living disastrously 2010-12-16T22:39:01Z

A 1921 pastel portrait of a woman by Picasso, “La Liseuse,” done in the figural manner dubbed “Neo-Classical” by art historians, was expected to be knocked down between £6 million and £9 million. Picasso Reigns, Barely, Over Disappointing Auction at Christie's 2010-06-24T11:30:00Z

"Wild Swans" author Jung Chang, India's Vikram Seth and British historian Timothy Garton-Ash are scheduled to attend this weekend's festival along with more than 80 authors from Myanmar. International literary festival opens in Myanmar 2013-02-01T03:34:10Z

Social historians are divided about the cause of the sartorial die-off, although an often repeated canard attributes it to President Kennedy and his rarely covered thatch of luxuriant hair. Critic?s Notebook: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back 2011-02-02T21:40:03Z

Through the centuries, writers and historians have reworked and reimagined the last days of Anne Boleyn. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a subject of endless debate among historians and economists. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s been a holy grail of comedy,” the film historian Leonard Maltin said of the second reel. Comedy’s Sweet Weapon: The Cream Pie 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

This isn’t the case with “Policing the Road,” by the legal historian Sarah Seo. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Novelists, like journalists and historians, have felt compelled to confront and come to terms with an act so consequential that its mysteries continue to trouble the American psyche more than 50 years later. Review | John F. Kennedy’s assassination sets a thriller in motion in ‘November Road’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

As one historian put it, Prescott Bush was something that no longer exists: “a liberal Republican.” Smart Watch: Killer Mike and Kal Penn explain it all in In "Trigger Warning" and "This Giant Beast 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

This week "Well Read," the books and authors television program on state public access channel TVW, featured Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College professor and one of the nation's eminent social historians. Stephanie Coontz discusses Betty Friedan's landmark book on 'Well Read' 2012-06-09T00:15:26Z

“Such themes weren’t discussed by art historians until recently,” he added. At the Prado, Love That Now Dares to Shout Its Name 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

His father was a cardiologist and his mother was a homemaker, then an art historian at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in Washington. Scandals usually end political careers. Not Joe Morrissey’s. 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

But in Johnson’s time, “many women understood that marriage was a life-changing decision, to have babies, not to work and to commit oneself to one’s spouse,” said labor historian Alice Kessler-Harris. Stay in school or get married? In 1965, the president’s daughter had to choose. 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

It lavishes attention on them, correcting the dismissiveness of earlier historians. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

“I think this as his ‘Kapital,’” said Timothy Snyder, a historian at Yale who has known Mr. Markovits since they were graduate students in Britain in the early 1990s, referring to Karl Marx’s magnum opus. The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Chats with historians, detective-like tours throughout rural and urban Mexico, and credible if expendable dramatic reenactments complete this touching, exhaustive tribute. 'Weaving the Past' an exhaustive tribute to a beloved grandfather 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

“You might think adding one more story would enrich things, but sometimes adding one more — an object, a label — confuses things,” said Redmond J. Barnett, a historian and museum consultant from Tacoma, Wash. A thorny question for African American museum: Whose story do we tell? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

He drew his share of criticism: it was sometimes suggested that his documentaries were not sufficiently probing, that his so-called docudramas took too many liberties with the facts, that he was more showman than historian. David L. Wolper, Producer of ?Roots? for TV, Dies 2010-08-12T04:30:00Z

Such is the response, in swift summary, of most of the art historians who have written about “Olympia,” a fountainhead of modern art and a painting as enigmatic as it is arresting. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

As for entertainment at this year’s dinner, it’ll be a keynote speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow, author of “Grant” and the Alexander Hamilton biography that inspired the blockbuster Broadway musical “Hamilton.” Perspective | Thanks, Mr. President, for making Washington’s glitziest dinner as dull as it should be. 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Paul Andrew Hutton, a historian at the University of New Mexico, said the character had given young children “an appreciation not only of history but of a kind of patriotism and self-sacrifice.” Fess Parker, Who as Davy Crockett Set Off Coonskin Cap Craze, Dies at 85 2010-03-19T04:38:00Z

I leave it to historians to confirm or dispute the accuracy of Mr. Rogers’s portrayals. Review: A Byzantine Path to Middle East Peace in ‘Oslo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fuoco, who died in 2008 at 84, has been discredited by scientists, historians, veterans and the family of the actual flight engineer. Publisher to Halt Printing of Disputed Hiroshima Book 2010-03-01T23:13:00Z

Some historians, she writes, have read this as paying for the value of her labor. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

After studying philosophy and creative writing, she has become a local historian with a deep knowledge of the region and its eccentric characters. True Love Can Leave Traces. S.G. Goodman’s Detailed Songs Do, Too. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

“The search for the next diet guru tells us more about American culture than it does about how the body metabolizes food,” said Deborah Levine, a medical historian at Providence College. ‘Biggest Loser: Australia’ Trainer Brings Weight-Loss Program to U.S. 2013-12-31T19:21:14Z

A particularly incisive commentary on the relationship between social unrest and urban transformation was provided this week by the Dutch architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout, who is currently researching a book on the subject. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-12T14:57:47Z

Both show and catalog were overseen by Clare Davies, associate curator in the Met’s department of modern and contemporary art, who has commissioned an insightful essay from the art historian Briony Fer. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

As the historian Ramachandra Guha emphasizes in “Gandhi Before India,” his career as a political activist and thinker was shaped largely by his experiences in South Africa. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Jack Anderson, a writer on dance for The New York Times for about five decades who combined a historian’s learnedness with an enthusiast’s ardor for what was new and surprising, died on Friday in Manhattan. Jack Anderson, Longtime Dance Critic for The Times, Dies at 88 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

The judgment of the historian Jean Smith, endorsed by Leebaert, is that without Bevin, Berlin would have been lost. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

“There are not many historians who matter,” the historian Jonathan Steinberg wrote in The London Review of Books in 1985. Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

This is strong stuff although, in a way, the traditional historians might agree. When the Ottoman Empire Threatened Europe — and the World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Boutique fitness changed the game of what people were willing to spend on an exclusive exercise experience,” said Natalia Petrzela, a fitness culture historian and associate professor of history at the New School. Is This the Most Expensive Pilates Class? 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

In another essay, the art historian Susan Weininger details Abercrombie’s psychology, shaped by an unloving mother and the daughter’s belief in her own homeliness — consistent with which, she sometimes wore a tall black witch’s hat. This Surrealist Is Having a Moment, 66 Years After Her Last New York Show 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

—Mr. Green is a historian and critic in Boston. ‘Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece’ Review: Recasting History 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Clevenger was performing — as cultural ambassador, light gossip, amateur historian — in much the same way she did when Upperline was in full flower. The Queen of a Cherished New Orleans Restaurant Calls It a Night 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

India is the birthplace of yoga, and some historians stick the colored pin at the base of the Himalayas. Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Jay, who first wrote about Buchinger in his 1986 book "Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers," is not your ordinary art historian. Ricky Jay's obsession with Matthias Buchinger, an unbelievable 17th century showman 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Whatever historians have to say about the last nine months in America, there’s no doubt that they will say that they were, well, interesting. Saturday Night Live: the 10 best skits from the most political season yet 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

In light of the imprimatur Cortez’s name carries with historians, his certifications were accompanied by photographs showing the curator mid-signature. In Orlando, 25 Mysterious Basquiats Come Under the Magnifying Glass 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The German film historian Siegfried Kracauer called Fanck’s movies “extraordinary in that they captured the most grandiose aspects of nature at a time when the German screen in general offered nothing but studio-made scenery.” The Idolatry of Glaciers, Rocks and Leni Riefenstahl 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Spirituals are a part of whatever I am,” he told music historian Elizabeth Nash. ‘Lost in the Stars’: Musical’s title song has staying power 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

This voice often rests uneasily with the more detached voice of the historian or curator, and at sites that combine memorial and museum, this can lead to strong disagreement. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

An encounter with a biography of Benjamin Disraeli led him, according to one historian, to pursue liberal policies — such as the opening of China — that would stun his political opponents. No more reader-in-chief: After Obama, Trump the nonreader amounts a real national loss 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“In a way, the red-carpet couture gown is almost like a wedding dress,” said Rebecca Arnold, a fashion historian with the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. What Happened to Risk on the Red Carpet? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Professor Shaw is also the senior historian and director of research, publications and scholarship at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. John Singer Sargent’s Secret Muse 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Stephanie Coontz, the historian, quotes a study which found that getting married adds seven hours a week to a woman’s unpaid labor workload – while decreasing a man’s by one hour. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Whereas the rest of the book is written in dry, largely uninflected prose, the epilogue — which almost reads like a Republican attack ad — devolves into a condescending diatribe unworthy of a serious historian. A Long, Long Look at Obama’s Life, Mostly Before the White House 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

How about a historian, a novelist or just a really passionate local? Apps Help Navigate Africa’s Many Gems 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

This account examines the historians and artists who have shaped our current understanding of the world, covering chroniclers from Thucydides and Voltaire to Winston Churchill and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Newly Published, From a Nixon Insider to Margaret Atwood 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The ship named San Jose, thought by historians to be carrying one of the largest unsalvaged maritime treasures, sank in 1708 near the historical Caribbean port of Cartagena, and its wreckage was located in 2015. Colombia advances toward salvaging treasure from sunken Spanish galleon 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

But including a long sample of the progressive historian Charles Beard’s cranky isolationism from 1939 adds to this section’s incoherence. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

More recently, she said, “curators and art historians have been interested in trying to reveal more — in part because there’s more interest in having a robust understanding of the past,” she said. John Singer Sargent’s Secret Muse 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Some academics found the book not scholarly enough, but most agreed with the journalist and historian Theodore H. White, who called it, “a monumental work, a grisly and thrilling story.” Books of The Times: A Foreign Correspondent in Nazi Germany Who Interpreted It for the World 2011-08-09T21:57:15Z

For some historians, the creation of the Reconstruction monument, by the nation’s first African-American president, represents a particularly sweet symbolic victory. President Obama Designates National Monuments to Civil Rights History 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Yet that was precisely the approach taken by Jennifer Homans, a former professional ballet dancer turned historian and critic, whose enormous new history of classical ballet, “Apollo’s Angels,” was published this month. This Ballerina Found History In Her Footsteps 2010-11-20T19:38:00Z

Eurovision has always “had a large L.G.B.T.Q. element in its fandom,” said Catherine Baker, a historian at the University of Hull who has written about the competition. Italy’s Eurovision Entry Signals the Country’s Changes 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Three out of four historians, for example, specialize in the post-industrial era or the 20th century, the American Historical Association reports. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

The group included volunteers from the High Desert Museum in Bend; the assistant director and historian from the A.R. ‘The Meek Cutoff’: Pioneers stranded in the Oregon desert 2013-08-07T22:01:43Z

“I’m a historian, I know memory is unreliable,” she said. An Infamous Hijacking, Revisited Through a Child’s Eyes 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Leonardo was born left-handed, but was taught to write with his right hand from a very young age,” said art historian Cecilia Frosinini. Florence study proves artist Leonardo da Vinci was ambidextrous 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Or that the building, a stark contrast to the city’s Buddhist temples, gorgeous gardens and mild-mannered monks, serves as headquarters for Akiko Fukai, Japan’s leading fashion historian. Akiko Fukai Curates History at the Kyoto Costume Institute 2012-02-22T18:06:57Z

In “Of Beards and Men,” the historian Christopher Oldstone-Moore plumbs the many meanings of facial hair in Western history. ‘Of Beards and Men’ review: The hairy truth about shaving through the ages 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Sister de Lourdes Fahy, 78, a respected historian and teacher who was raised on a nearby farm, said her father and uncle often recalled the lifts they gave Yeats in a pony-and-trap. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

But the young historian Robert Elder has given us just that in “Calhoun” — an illuminating account of the life of the notorious white supremacist as well as his complex afterlife in American political culture. John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Some art historians attribute the price jump to the increasingly limited availability of her paintings. Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Sells for $34.9 Million 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

More than 700 artists, music industry professionals and historians help to decide who is inducted. Ringo Starr, Lou Reed among 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

And that was the first time that any historian had used slave narratives as a way to write about slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z

“Everything that could have happened for this show has happened, and today is the capstone,” the historian Ron Chernow, whose biography of Hamilton inspired the show, said before the performance, the musical’s sixth preview. Starring on Broadway, Obama and Alexander Hamilton 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

For about a decade — a time that Olympic historians may someday classify as “the Michael Phelps era” — I’ve been reading about the unique genetic blessings bestowed upon the greatest swimmer to ever live. Perspective | We celebrated Michael Phelps’s genetic differences. Why punish Caster Semenya for hers? 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Morton White, a philosopher and historian of ideas whose innovative theory of “holistic pragmatism” showed the way toward a more socially engaged, interdisciplinary role for philosophy, died on May 27 in Skillman, N.J. Morton White, Philosopher of Holistic Pragmatism, Dies at 99 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

It took me a few days — and I was helped by some terrific suggestions from architects, critics and historians on Twitter and elsewhere online — but in the end finding 25 wasn’t that difficult. Architecture is facing its own award-season controversy 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

That will it make it tough for preservationists or architectural historians to determine precisely what kind of shape it is in. Thomas Mann house by midcentury great J.R. Davidson: L.A.'s next big teardown? 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

His personal taste as a dance musician is refreshingly far from the “rockist,” Led Zeppelin-worshiping tendencies of so many pop historians. ‘Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé,’ by Bob Stanley

The book, published in 2009, garnered strong reviews and numerous prizes, including the Bancroft Prize, one of the most prestigious honors for professional historians. A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Waltz, the music historian, and Woody Sullivan, an astronomy professor from the University of Washington, are currently undertaking a critical biography of Herschel that combines science with music. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

The history detailed in this book has been recounted many times, from Cornelius Ryan's marvelous accounts of D-Day and Operation Market Garden to more recent works by historians Max Hastings and Anthony Beevor. War in Europe comes alive in `Guns at Last Light' 2013-05-15T14:08:08Z

“The unspoken rules about sartorial standards don’t apply when nobody is in a social situation,” said Deirdre Clemente, a fashion historian at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Leggings Take a Victory Lap 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

European and American historians are now laboriously tracking down parts of the palace, much of which ended up in America. Reassembling Hamilton Palace, Room by Room, All 150 of Them 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

In a recent essay about teaching the American Revolution, Jane Kamensky, a professor of history at Harvard, argued that historians need to do more to shore up “our fragile democracy.” The Battle for 1776 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Bunny wanted the space to present her own perfected self,” Mac Griswold, the cultural landscape historian and writer, was saying on Monday evening. Inside Bunny Mellon’s World 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

"There is a certain excitement to think people who had done illegal things and got away with it were in charge here," said Alan Balboni, a Nevada historian. Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions 2011-03-30T09:46:06Z

But the object of interest — to some art historians and aficionados — sits just outside the park, where the spartina cordgrass takes over. A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

Art historians say that of the hundreds of paintings and drawings Mr. Stella created, more than 70 percent depicted his fanciful view of nature. An Urban Painter’s Fantastic Floral Visions 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

“As part of his therapy, he drew and made some hammered copper bowls and plaques,” the historian B. H. Friedman wrote in a 1972 biography of Pollock. Antiques: ?40s Propaganda Posters: Soviet Morale Boosters 2011-07-28T19:57:01Z

Writing in The New York Review of Books last month, the historian Samuel Moyn took issue with Stanley’s book, and with fascism analogies in general. The Debate Over the Word Fascism Takes a New Turn 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Homes’s novel, her sixth, centers on two brothers — one a historian and Richard Nixon scholar, the other a TV executive — and the violent act that upends their lives. ArtsBeat: A. M. Homes Awarded Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013-06-05T19:58:54Z

“Too much bother,” said the food historian Sandy Oliver, who lives on Islesboro, an island in Penobscot Bay. It’s Maine Shrimp Season, Without the Shrimp 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

That allows him some creative license while at the same time obliging him to meet up with an ending already recorded by historians and anthropologists. "Vikings" kicks off its final season with its own "tender moment" in history 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“Trump’s election may end up being a turning point, and historians will want to tell the story as if it were destined to happen,” he continued. Historians Assess Obama’s Legacy Under Trump’s Shadow 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

When he tries to challenge an Auschwitz historian on a particular detail, his confidence in the bunk he’s trying to pass off as fact is jaw-dropping. Review: Denial Takes on the Bullying Bluster of Liars 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Appropriately, then, music historian Ted Gioia, author of “West Coast Jazz” and “Love Songs,” has just released “How to Listen to Jazz.” To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Florian Sepp, a historian at the Bavarian State Library, summed up the official stance, for the Washington Post: “This book is too dangerous for the general public.” A Historian Who Fled the Nazis and Still Wants Us to Read Hitler 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

At one London concert during the 1820s, the audience was treated to demonstrations of electric eels, according to the pianist, conductor and historian Joel Sachs, who is on the faculty of the Juilliard School. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z

Occasionally, however, diligent curators or art historians rescue artists from the past whose work still seems fresh, strong and enduring decades after their heyday. Z. Vanessa Helder: a Northwest artist rediscovered at Tacoma Art Museum 2013-09-08T14:16:08Z

Kagan, a professor emeritus at Yale University and father of historians Robert and Frederick Kagan, died Aug. 6 at a retirement home in Washington, D.C. Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

During what most historians call the Armenian genocide, they were sent out on a death march. Review | This D.C. exhibition should be seen by everyone concerned about the migrant crisis 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

In fact, the historian should do both – first see the world as it appears to protagonists at the time, and then analyse with hindsight. Author, author: Antony Beevor on faction 2011-02-19T00:05:34Z

Tristram Hunt, the historian, broadcaster and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, took Pickles to task over putting emptying bins over culture. Library protests are the domain of 'luvvies', Eric Pickles tells MPs 2012-12-18T13:05:39Z

As a historian of the Bible in American life, I can attest that such shallow reading in service of political and cultural agendas has long been a fixture of evangelical Christianity. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Hardworking but unworldly, Soutine made things difficult for historians by destroying his own paintings when he didn’t like them, leaving others unsigned and never keeping a diary. Steeped in Blood, Soutine’s Work Revels in Life, Not Death 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

“It will portray her outside of the mystery,” said Niya Bates, the foundation’s public historian of slavery and African American life. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

In her fascinating new book, “The Astaires,” the Australian theater historian Kathleen Riley describes the exploits of this brother-sister team in glorious detail. ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z

“Tales From the Tour Bus” visually fascinates and educates by animating footage of interviews with the actual musicians, family members, historians and the people who knew them best. Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus” 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

It seems that the mystery online reviewer who savaged works by some of Britain's leading Russianists turns out to be the wife of historian Orlando Figes. Is Amazon's literary whodunnit really a scandal? 2010-04-19T12:01:00Z

A smaller exhibition on Governors Island, organized by participants in the society’s student historians program, will highlight the island’s use by both British and Continental forces during the revolution. Lafayette Sails Back to New-York Historical Society, 200 Years Later 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

On Nov. 7, the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal opened a timely, wide-ranging survey and reinterpretation of Post-Modernism, “Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths,” curated by Sylvia Lavin, a Princeton University architectural historian. Should PoMo Architecture, at the 50-Year Mark, Be Saved? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Born and educated in Rosario, Argentina, he was known as a poet before he became an art historian. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Dunkley’s work was almost immediately embraced by artists, historians and patrons — especially elite Jamaicans on the lookout for art that was more African and Jamaican than European and colonial, but he went his own way. John Dunkley, an Outsider Artist Deep in the Heart of Jamaica 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Nineteenth-century historian Thomas Carlyle was famously infuriated by noise at his home in Chelsea, including crowing cockerels and an organ grinder. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

Dyson, a Bellingham resident and science historian, certainly has the background to tell this story. 'Turing's Cathedral': convergence of the natural and digital worlds 2012-03-01T20:45:04Z

“The androgynous vintage blazer is definitely representative for the aesthetic,” said Dilara Schloz, a fashion historian and researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, who considers herself an adherent of the Dark Academia subculture. Academia Lives — on TikTok 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

With little background information available, you get to play historian and detective. Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

The Spanish civil war, which ran from 1936 to 1939, is most notable to historians for how it foreshadowed the horrors of World War II. 'Spain in Our Hearts' tells the American story of the Spanish civil war 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

The historians of the 22nd century might begin with archive pictures of Sunday's flotilla, looking for signs of post-imperial hangover, marvelling at our attachment to a buccaneering, maritime past. What's typically British now? Tears, tents and no spiders 2012-06-01T19:30:01Z

In 2015, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a man once not known to many outside his circle of Broadway legions, shed light on another man once not known to many outside a circle of knowledgeable historians. Why History Has Its Eyes on Hamilton’s Diversity 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

According to NPR’s “Fresh Air” TV critic and media historian David Bianculli, we are living in television’s Platinum Age, so stash the defibrillators and pop the champagne. What’s on TV tonight? An astonishing number of great shows. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

The polymathic Macdonald — historian of science, naturalist, poet, illustrator and one-time falcon breeder for the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

But according to Will Kaufman, a folk singer and historian, Guthrie almost never sang these stanzas in public, for reasons that remain unclear. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

To paraphrase the historian David Starkey, we should celebrate, and not be ashamed of, England. St George's Day launch for laughable comic superhero: Englishman 2013-04-23T11:59:52Z

It was this preserved-in-amber state that prompted Charles Carter, a Miami-raised military historian, to spearhead efforts to transform the base into a historic site. A Cold War Missile Base in the Heart of the Everglades 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Until now, historians only knew that Every eventually sailed to Ireland in 1696, where the trail went cold. Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Some literary historians suspect “Robinson Crusoe” was inspired by the island’s remoteness. Next Stop: In Postwar Sri Lanka, Beaches, Temples and Military Checkpoints 2010-03-12T02:50:00Z

Hughes, a broadcaster and historian, said the calibre of submissions was high. Orange prize shortlist shows women's writing in 'rude health' 2011-04-12T09:05:08Z

This requires more creativity than professional historians usually allow themselves, but Peirce, an expert on the Ottoman Empire, is careful to wall off her speculations with fair warnings. The Woman Who Smashed a Glass Ceiling in the 16th Century 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

This project would not have been possible without the expertise of human historians and musicians. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

In the film civic leaders, journalists and art historians on both sides of the debate on the wisdom of that decision are heard from. Film: Requiem for a Jumble of Artworks 2010-02-19T22:41:00Z

Sometimes historians are better positioned to gain such understanding, even as it is still underway. Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Russell Lewis, the chief historian at the Chicago History Museum, said that not much other documentation survives from the New York pavilion. Trove of Forgotten Steichen Photos Heads for Auction 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The Picts, the indigenous people of what is today northern Scotland, were documented by Roman historians as having complex tattoos. Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world — and also to colonialism 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

She is a perceptive historian, keenly aware of how history “cross-pollinates all my interactions” and yet is “little more than a record of disputed erasures.” Review | ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The narrator sets up the historians as his foils, though of course he shares in their motives. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

He was the administrator of a Paris radio and television station, who was on the way to becoming a lawyer and already a historian.  The family firm that hunts Nazis 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

But on Monday, the newspaper reversed itself and published an article by the Vatican's top art historian shooting down the claim. Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled 2010-07-27T12:25:00Z

That little quotation is all the proof historians seem to require to demonstrate that when the war began, neither Lincoln nor the Republicans had any idea of emancipating slaves. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z

It was very unusual for historians to write about what nature did to people. America’s response to coronavirus pandemic is ‘incomprehensibly incoherent,’ says historian who studied the 1918 flu 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

Each author will receive $10,000 for one of the most coveted awards among historians. Books on fishing, wartime win Bancroft prize 2013-03-18T16:42:25Z

“Cigarette makers could no longer advertise on television. Juul could. Cigarette makers could no longer have a billboard on Times Square. Juul could,” said Dr. Robert Proctor, a tobacco historian at Stanford. The 6 biggest Juul revelations from Netflix’s docuseries “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z

“It troubles me that the city is embarking on this kind of enterprise again,” said Michele H. Bogart, an art historian specializing in the city’s public works. Faith Ringgold Mural at Rikers Island to Move to Brooklyn Museum 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

The extravagance and curiosity of the early American garage was symbolized, the landscape historian J. B. Jackson noted, in the borrowing of what was obviously a French word for an American phenomenon. How the Garage Became America’s Favorite Room 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Bernard Bailyn had an enduring and prolific career even though he was never as widely known as Gordon Wood and other historians of the early U.S. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

They never actually read from the book, but the historian and the singer play to their strengths, deploying two powerful elements of persuasion: additional information and emotion. Tim McGraw sings. Jon Meacham talks. This is not your regular book tour. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

An avid 19th century collector, she scoured the auction rooms of Europe picking up masterpieces with the help of her personal shopper, esteemed art historian Bernard Berenson. In the frame 2010-03-18T09:05:00Z

One photo captures Emmanuel, a man whom Thompson describes as the local historian, knowledgeable about everyone and everything. A Photographer Chronicles Upheaval in His Suburban Home Town 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Curiously, the reemergence of Blahnik’s restrained “classic” styles counters an apparent trend sometimes noted by footwear historians: the more depressed the economy, the more vertiginous the shoe. Manolo Blahnik Shoes Regain ?It? Status in Fashion World 2011-10-14T22:16:27Z

Also Monday, the esteemed Southern historian Anne Firor Scott won the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Prize for "distinguished writing in American history of enduring public significance." A book about the first Protestant missions to the Muslim communities of the Middle East has won the prestigious Parkman Prize for history 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Ms Faderman has ably drawn the map that future historians of the struggle will use to chart their courses. The arc of history 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

“They honest-to-God did not know what they had,” said Michael E. Uslan, a comic book historian, writer and film producer. Superman Turns 80. The Red Trunks Still Fit. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

As the legal historian Mary Ziegler writes in “Dollars for Life,” the start of the 2016 election cycle had evangelicals extremely worried. Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P. 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

Dr. Sorensen once worked there as a research historian specializing in African American food culture. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Gao Jun, deputy general manager of Chinese theater operator New Film Association, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday that Tang's role was cut because historians questioned the factual accuracy of her character. Tang's role in Chinese propaganda film in doubt 2011-05-26T10:11:09Z

In her 2008 book, “The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” the historian Drew Gilpin Faust estimated that twice as many soldiers died of illness than died in combat. Review: ‘Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The historian David Kahn called him the “world’s greatest cryptologist.” The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

PBS will have presidential historians on hand for analysis of convention speeches. Everything changing for convention coverage 2012-08-22T13:22:11Z

Absorbing that 12 minutes of information had me feeling like a boxing historian in miniature. Boxing and the Age of Denial 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Murphy is nevertheless the first historian to consolidate accounts of all seven attackers. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z

Historians of science debate the meaning and importance of his manuscripts, while historians of art and curators wrangle over the authenticity and chronology of his works. A New Biography of the Renaissance Genius 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

As a historian, Hodes was well aware that even first-person testimony written close to events, while gold to scholars, needs to be read critically. An Infamous Hijacking, Revisited Through a Child’s Eyes 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Many metal historians such as Ian Christie have said that the history of heavy metal begins with Black Sabbath's debut studio album, "Black Sabbath," released in 1970. ‘Oh creator, it’s you I now renounce’: How death metal lyrics echo some Bible passages 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Jamaican historian Rupert Lewis, meanwhile, honed in on the tour name, recoiling at the notion that Mandela’s time in prison as a freedom fighter belonged in the same breath as Buju’s lockup on drug charges. Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

They were aided by architectural historians, who argued that the grounds, buildings, and statues were, while morally unsettling, beautifully designed. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gelb could have assembled Middle East historians, religious leaders and the “Klinghoffer” creative team to have a public dialogue, culminating in the simulcast. What ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ Could Have Accomplished 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

At their core, art historians study the ways in which art can offer insights into how people once saw the world. How AI is hijacking art history 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

But there were also amateur historians, like Barbara Calderbank, a former manager for the Royal Post Office who once presented a paper to her local group about the significance of the mail in Austen novels. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

“Until about 10 years ago, there certainly wasn’t such demand for a watch historian like me.” Parlaying a Watchmaker's History Into Brand Appeal 2012-02-20T13:25:43Z

But I’m not a historian or a politician or a social scientist, and I have nothing insightful to say about this. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

“I think he thinks like a social historian.” Lessons Taught: Obama’s Legacy as a Historian 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

“What many seek,” she added, “is an objective multilateral survey — by anthropologists, social psychologists, psychiatrists, historians, possibly under government sponsorship — of the causes and patterns of socially destructive behavior, particularly as applied to international affairs.” ArtsBeat: A Cold War Spy Trial, Before McCarthy and the Rosenbergs 2011-03-04T18:48:00Z

What made one of Spain's most feted novelists turn historian? Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z

Wall labels include thoughts and impressions from writers, historians, blue-collar workers, sports and culture enthusiasts, artists and those with some connection to the location being depicted. Whose Writing Is on the Wall at the Museum? It Could Be Yours. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

As cliche as it may seem, these scenes are perhaps sending a necessary message to future historians: Not all of us fell quietly and passively into the screen. Perspective | These TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Bartending was considered a woman’s job in England, but here, that began to change around the time of the Revolution, says cocktail historian David Wondrich. ‘The line is crossed, and it’s crossed daily’: The struggles of female bartenders 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

The social and cultural historian Claire Langhamer has argued that this period witnessed an "emotional revolution" as romantic love became the foundation of marriage. Sally Rooney’s "Conversations with Friends" – how British attitudes have become tougher on adultery 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

When the historian GM Trevelyan claimed that "without natural beauty the English people will perish spiritually" he was expressing, albeit in archaic terms, what most people would recognise. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z

Meacham is a nonideological historian and McGraw is a country star, two professions that were built for caution, something McGraw occasionally takes to excess. Review | How American music became both a reflection and an instrument of social change 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

But he is hindered, as are all historians of comics, by that world’s ephemeral nature. Review | ‘True Believer’ tries to capture Stan Lee. It isn’t easy. 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Then my inner historian scolds me – I have to remind myself that I'm taking part in one of the world's oldest religious traditions. The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

Van Gogh was Dutch, but he developed his style in Paris and the south of France, and is considered by art historians to be part of the French post-Impressionist movement. Hidden Artwork Revealed by X-Ray Appears to Be Van Gogh Self-Portrait, Experts Say 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Someday someone may well write a kind of micro-history of that night, as historians now are wont to do, as a pivot in American life,” Adam Gopnik later wrote in the New Yorker. Seth Meyers: ‘I couldn’t have asked for a better target than Trump’ 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

This time, the City of Paris quickly mounted an effort to archive the material from Nov. 13, which will prove valuable to sociologists and historians. In Paris, Archivists Preserve Tokens of Grief 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

The historian will assure you that the facts are the story. The lying art of historical fiction 2010-08-06T15:44:00Z

Mitch Horowitz  is a PEN Award-winning historian whose most recent book is “The Miracle Club.” Review | Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ is looking pretty good in the Trump era 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

But a Dutch historian, Wally de Lang, made it her mission in 2017 to discover the fates of each and every one of the men taken that day. She Discovered What Happened to 400 Dutch Jews Who Disappeared 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

The roots of modern policing go all the way back to slave patrols of the antebellum South, according to historian W. Marvin Dulaney, which had unrestricted power over enslaved people and often used violence. The duty and burden of the black police officer 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

“The books feel like guilty pleasures, but there’s nothing to feel guilty about, because with Deb you’re in the hands of a real honest to god historian.” All Souls Trilogy: Harry Potter for Grown-Ups? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

He became Ghana’s first photojournalist in the 1950s, according to historians. The Man Who Pictured Ghana’s Rise at Home and Abroad 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Gray Brechin, a historian and founder of the Living New Deal Project, accused board members of not understanding “what you’re looking at.” San Francisco School Board Votes to Hide, but Not Destroy, Disputed Murals 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Good grief, this film is already forcing the historian to defend Nixon, and it's only just started. Far from unimpeachable 2010-06-03T11:40:00Z

Much of the art focused on bucolic depictions of American scenery or, as the art historian Francis V. O’Connor wrote, of the “earnest worker and his handsome family” living in “blissful diligence in well-planned communities.” The Virus Won’t Revive F.D.R.’s Arts Jobs Program. Here’s Why. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

When set against the rosy glow of Ransome and Blyton, will historians and sociologists using children's stories as source material see childhood at the turn of the 20th century as grim? Book Doctor: do classic children's books give us too rosy a view of childhood? 2013-04-22T11:45:16Z

Apparently, many historians look down on the amateur penchant for tracing family trees; it is not research but “mesearch,” too small-picture, too personal to constitute true scholarship. Is race genetic? 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Some music historians theorize that this episode gave rise to the apocryphal tale that Pete Seeger, incensed at Mr. Dylan’s use of electric guitars, attacked the cables with a fire ax. Mack McCormick, Student of Texas Blues, Dies at 85 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

"At the top with the executives, it's musical chairs," Dart Adams, music historian, journalist and A&R, who has written for publications like NPR and OkayPlayer, told Salon. Why #MeToo has had little effect on the music industry 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

As the education historian Jonna Perrillo observes, parents tend to approve of having their children study the same books that they once did. Will high school "classics" be replaced? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

“You couldn’t be more covered up,” says Pamela Church Gibson, a fashion historian, adding that the dress is a form of sartorial protest. The story of The Dress: how a £40 Zara frock stole the summer 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

Have academic historians got more serious advice to offer to busy politicians? Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

Some historians believed he idealized the founders and paid too little attention to the elite economic status of George Washington and others. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Nine years ago, I received a call from a well-respected historian who informed me that my father had played a leading role in one of history’s greatest treasure hunts. Monuments Men: A Baltimore writer learns her father helped in the search for Nazi plunder

Does all this mean the death of the celebrity historian? The death of celebrity historians is much exaggerated 2012-05-27T21:00:01Z

The museum director’s life is also the subject of a new biography by the Dutch art and cultural historian Wessel Krul, which was published last month. In a Netherlands Museum Director, the Nazis Found an Ally 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

He was in his way a historian — of other people’s magnetism and volition. It’s Hard to Make Dignity Interesting. Chadwick Boseman Found a Way. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

Now a grandmother and amateur local historian, Corless has spent years painstakingly researching records to discover what happened behind those high walls, where unmarried pregnant women were sent to have their babies in secret. Amateur historian 'blew open locked doors' by exposing Irish babies' mass grave 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

She’s got useful questions and tensions in her whole presentation, between affectation and plainness, between being a kind of historian and a blank slate. Music Review: Angel Olsen at the Glasslands Gallery 2012-11-13T23:41:46Z

The Anglo-German historian has spent most of his adult life in the company of Kaiser Wilhelm II, a man he describes as a “boastful autocrat, militarist and racist”. A toxic monarch 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

“True Love” disappeared from the historical record, and for decades historians recognized only three other 19th-century novels written and published by African-Americans. “True Love”: The Victorian (re)discovery that transformed our understanding of black women’s literature 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

To be a successful Black historian is to endure, with unruffled equilibrium, a barrage of condescension, dismissal and obfuscation from White peers. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Their draped robes and jewelry symbolize their descent from the heavens “to save souls on earth,” the historian Chang Qing writes in the catalog. Antiques: Asia Week Dealers Stress Provenance 2011-03-17T20:46:32Z

When Patrick Gielen, a local historian and tour guide, started telling me about the royal consecrations that took place at the cathedral, I almost got the sense he was there. The Legend and Lore of Notre-Dame de Reims 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

In a 2011 paper Samuel Moyn, a historian at Columbia, argues that opponents of the Vietnam War rarely invoked the laws of war, despite wide reports of atrocities. ‘Lincoln’s Code,’ by John Fabian Witt 2012-10-10T21:53:50Z

To suggest that he was not concerned with or didn’t care deeply about civil rights is simply not true, and I don’t think any historian would subscribe to that.” Bryan Cranston takes his L.B.J. to TV in ‘All the Way’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

And the art historian Ernest Fenollosa who, while teaching political economy in Tokyo, snapped up art that the Japanese, in a modernizing frenzy, were throwing away. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

During this time, Mr. Oliver’s career as an architectural historian also blossomed. Paul Oliver, Pre-eminent Authority on the Blues, Dies at 90 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Hall is one of the most distinguished historians of 19th-century Britain and its empire working today, and Macaulay and Son offers, at one level, an ideal match of author with subject. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

“There is a bug inside Don, a drive that is not in your average academic,” Paul Kennedy, a fellow Yale historian, said in an interview. Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

To many historians, the storming of the Capitol on Wednesday recalled a very specific history: the many white supremacist attacks on Black voting rights and legitimately elected governments during Reconstruction. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

This beautiful book by Mazower, a historian at Columbia University, revolves around his grandfather Max’s enigmatic postwar silences. Surviving Europe’s Horrendous 20th Century 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

She is the historian, and once a year she delivers "The Remembrance" to her people in a ritual of sharing. Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

Not an economist, historian, or journalist, but simply a singer, Springsteen understood what still eludes many politicians and millions of Americans committed to the optical challenge of the blindfold. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

In his influential essay, The New Hollywood, film historian Thomas Schatz notes that Jaws “recalibrated the profit potential of the Hollywood hit and redefined its status as a marketable commodity and cultural phenomenon as well”. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

If today British historians are among the most outward-looking sections of the academy, that is in large part due to the work of the CPHG. The history man 2012-10-01T14:14:01Z

There are also camps of historians with diametrically opposed views. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z

However, this volume by photographer Bryan Shih and historian Yohuru Williams differs from other books recently published that highlight the better-known names from the group’s history. Foot soldiers and unheralded leaders of the Black Panthers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Feb. 8: Nell Painter , historian and Princeton professor emerita, author of last year's intriguingly titled "The History of White People" as well as "Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol." Seattle Arts & Lectures brings Elizabeth Strout, Tracy Kidder, Jonathan Franzen and more to the NW 2010-06-11T20:34:00Z

The authors, all of them historians at English universities, argue that Britain is pathologically in thrall to a misguided and inaccurate notion of Winston Churchill’s legacy. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

“The fact is, however, that many of King’s greatest songs were written with Goffin,” rock music historian Anthony DeCurtis wrote in an e-mail. Gerry Goffin, lyricist who co-wrote seminal ’60s hits, dies at 75

They and other historians now believe he’s buried in a Manhattan cemetery. Experts say portrait isn’t of George Washington’s chef 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

To this, fellow historian Rosalyn Lapier asks, “Why are Americans so destructive? . . . Why is that part of our story? Why is that part of our history?” With "The American Buffalo," Ken Burns connects an icon of the natural world to our nation's history 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z

Academic caution aside, that curiosity isn’t detached from action; Longerich and Simms have both joined the growing ranks of historians speaking publicly about threats they see in contemporary society. Can History’s ‘Great Man’ Theory Explain Hitler? 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

Stone and His Stoners Face the Weed Killers The 19th-century historian Frederick Jackson Turner described the Western frontier as “the meeting point between savagery and civilization.” | 'Savages': Review: ‘Savages,’ Oliver Stone’s Adaptation of Don Winslow’s Novel 2012-07-05T16:02:31Z

And while Outlander doesn’t necessarily seek to give viewers a history lesson, the fact that combat nurse Claire Randall’s husband, Frank, is a historian certainly helps. Outlander Recap: Feminism and Time Travel in a Bodice-Ripping Romance? Sure! 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

Architects and historians combine to admire the squares and crescents of honey-coloured stone which spill down the hillside from Lister's velvet and silk mill, one of the largest monuments to Britain's textile trade. Manningham gets English Heritage guide 2010-06-25T10:23:00Z

More are entering this gray area as searchable records — wartime exhibition listings, auction catalogs, archives from dealers, collectors and historians — appear online. Does My Family Own a Painting Looted by Nazis? 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

It's unusual to see, say, an architectural historian share a stage with a digital media developer, a pathology curator and an events organiser in front of an equally mixed audience. Museum people should show off more 2013-05-10T12:09:08Z

Architectural historians have described the monastery churches, some shaped like gnomes in slouch hats, as Byzantine churches built with Gothic hands. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z

Some feminist art historians have suggested that Ms. Frankenthaler’s stain technique could perhaps even be likened to menstruation. An Appraisal: Helen Frankenthaler and John Chamberlain ? an Appraisal 2011-12-28T00:42:54Z

The interviews were held in Kennedy's home in Washington in the spring of 1964, with the historian and Kennedy family friend Arthur Schlesinger Jr acting as interlocutor. Jacqueline Kennedy interviews to be made public 2010-04-13T16:31:00Z

Other historians, too, tend to emphasise the spread and variety of Renaissance ideas throughout Europe, rather than its Italian origins. Trying to revive the Renaissance 2010-06-03T14:01:00Z

Later generations of historians simply accepted easily available information about the dispute without examining its veracity: Vicentino’s story transformed into established fact. A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Often armed with the first affordable synthesisers and inspired by Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle and Joy Division, they set about making a fascinating new noise that's been virtually ignored by pop historians. Music Weekly: Cold Wave special 2010-03-26T12:04:00Z

A short silent comedy that was lost for decades holds a big surprise for film buffs and historians when a familiar face emerges on screen wearing a police uniform and that unforgettable mustache. Long lost Chaplin film to debut at Va. festival 2010-07-15T15:28:00Z

He was a Southerner, and, as a historian, he had written in support of the Ku Klux Klan. The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

According to the historian of the Otis Company, this illustration was based on a sketch made during the demonstration by an artist for the New York Recorder. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

Let future historians wonder How Eliza reacted when you broke her heart. The Women of “Hamilton” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

As for historians, I'm a great admirer of Jill Lepore, who writes essays for the New Yorker in addition to her many books. BookTalk: John Brown's "Midnight Rising" 2011-12-22T10:03:38Z

The free program will be fully interactive, allowing young historians to answer multiple-choice questions like, “Which U.S. president was born on July 4th?” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Yet as a historian analyzing human and shark entanglements across the centuries, I argue that the temporal depths of "sharkmania" run much deeper. Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lee is an owner of 227 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, a house adjacent to the park that historians now believe was part of the Underground Railroad. A Monument Honoring Brooklyn Abolitionists Stalls Under Scrutiny 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

In the suit, O’Donnell said he had paid more than $200,000 for the acquisition and marketing of the painting, including engaging art appraisers and historians. Is this a real Jackson Pollock? L.A. power lawyer sues over potential $100-million mystery 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

My sympathies are with future historians who have their work cut out for them sifting through an endless digital archives of “sounds good”s and “lol”s looking for something — anything — of importance. Perspective | Google wants to write your emails for you. It’s time to draw the line. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Price, an English professor at Rutgers University and a book historian, is especially interested in books as material objects — not just for their literariness, that is, but for their literalness too. Recalling a Time When Books Could Give You Indigestion 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

These women were followed later in the same year by, as legal historian Judith Kelleher Schaffer described them, “other more respectable women.” When prostitution wasn’t a crime 2013-02-20T06:34:00Z

Placement on the National Register for Historic Places, along with the passionate support of architects and architectural historians for preserving it, saved most of the best of the building. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Susan Tunick, an architectural historian who runs the Friends of Terra Cotta in New York, has just finished tracking them down. Antiques: Madison Square Presbyterian Church Fragments Found 2011-12-01T22:39:26Z

Western film historians eventually mentioned him alongside Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa. Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

In The Herald of Glasgow, the historian Frank McLynn concluded that “there can surely now be no serious doubt French is the most impressive Western historian of modern India currently at work.” Patrick French, Unsparing Biographer of V.S. Naipaul, Dies at 56 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

“There were a lot of companies that failed, and those families don’t hire historians and collect art.” Artists Scrutinize a Collector’s Nazi Family Past 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Drawing on interviews with historians and the surviving pilots, as well as re-enactments and archival footage, “Above and Beyond” is partly a procedural. ‘Above and Beyond,’ Jewish American Pilots Fighting for Israel 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The museum has a collection of about 12,000 posters, but many on view are on loan from the collection of Ira M Resnick, a historian and movie poster collector in New York. 'It's not about nostalgia': re-examining gender roles in film posters 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

While he was still a graduate student, he came to the attention of Randolph Churchill, who was overseeing a team of historians researching his father’s biography. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“For the First Kansas Colored Infantry, the real nightmare began after the battle,” Mark Christ, a Civil War historian, says in the episode. Television: Old-Time Stuff Is Not Forgotten 2011-05-27T18:40:43Z

“The music that I deal with has elements of bebop to ballad, swing to sweet, blues to boogie, and pop to rock,” Mr. Blythe told the musician and oral historian Ben Sidran in 1986. Arthur Blythe, Jazz Saxophonist Who Mixed Sultry and Strident, Dies at 76 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Klara Boyer-Rossol, a historian who has studied remains from Madagascar, said the museum’s identification policy was restrictive, unrealistic and possibly designed to limit restitutions. A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose. 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

Still, a black man, is both an activist and a historian. The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

It’s this incarnation that film historian Richard Barrios elucidates in his informative and engaging new book, a co-production of Turner Classic Movies and Running Press. Review | Just in time for an updated ‘West Side Story,’ a look back at the 1961 classic 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

But Mr Perlstein is too rigorous a historian to paint Reagan’s success as mere trickery. Purpose and worth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

As he said, if he were younger and a historian, he would certainly now think twice about giving voice to his opinions. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

How is your job different from that of an historian? Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

In 1962 a poll of historians placed Eisenhower 20th in the all-time rankings; last year, a similar poll put him fifth. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Thompson's narrative, published 38 years after the battle, includes inconsistencies that have caused many historians to reject it, but Philbrick joins those who believe it has enough credence not to be summarily dismissed. 'The Last Stand': An end for Custer, Sitting Bull and a way of life 2010-05-12T23:19:00Z

But after studying at Harvard under colonial historian Perry Miller, Morgan became fascinated by the Puritans and wrote about them in his first book, "The Puritan Family," published in 1944. Edmund S. Morgan, colonial scholar, dies at 97 2013-07-09T13:05:12Z

“People looked at Cary Grant as the epitome of accomplished, sophisticated survival,” says the film historian David Thomson. Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown 'changed my life' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

The group includes professors and historians, fanboys and artists, many of whom have posted their theories online accompanied by maps, videos, and pages-long explications pleading their cases. Arts & Leisure: ?Room 237,? Documentary With Theories About ?The Shining? 2012-01-27T18:18:02Z

"Hollywood has a frankly terrible history with the Civil War," said David W. Blight, a Yale historian. Hollywood takes on the Civil War 2011-05-04T20:19:19Z

Another that explores the legacy of journalist and historian Charles Lummis on Southern California. And yet another that looks at the ways in which the city of L.A. will design and build for the future. KCET kicks off 7th season of 'Artbound' with hourlong special on contemporary black artists 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

A published author for more than 40 years, he has been called the dean of Cold War thinkers by Harvard historian Priscilla McMillan. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

He builds his case with interviews — Ron Reagan Jr., surviving members of Reagan’s White House, journalists from the era and historians — along with contemporaneous news clips and rare archival film footage. Was Reagan a Precursor to Trump? A New Documentary Says Yes 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Since the war's end, German historians have argued that many of the nation's 18 million Wehrmacht soldiers were honourable men, who acted with due probity at the front. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z

That work was described by the film historian David Thomson as “primitive” cinema, “in which psychic thrust lies naked in the imagery, like a sword in a bed.” Review: ‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The soil unearthed by Crossrail and the discoveries made by archaeologists provide rich material for Gillian Tindall, a historian who has written biographies of Bombay, London’s South Bank and the Left Bank of Paris. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Young art historians were looking for untapped material. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

"Very difficult to predict," says the publicist and historian of celebrity Mark Borkowski. Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z

“The film is very important because it has already contributed enormously to awareness of this history,” said Julien Fargettas, a French Army veteran and historian. Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford he was taught by historian AJP Taylor, with whom he became good friends. Television presenter Robert Kee dies aged 93 2013-01-11T16:23:00Z

Now, take a look at this amazing menu from the 1840s that the culinary historian Henry Voight just found and posted on his blog. What to Cook This Weekend 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

The critic and art historian Barbara Rose organized an exhibition of his work as part of “Painting after Postmodernism: Belgium-U.S.A.,” which opened in September in Brussels. Walter Darby Bannard, Artist of the Color Field Movement, Dies at 82 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Scorsese is film historian enough to recreate early cinema in perfect detail, but Hugo's plot is set in motion by a heart-shaped key. Oscars: Best picture nominees 2012-01-24T17:21:48Z

Cenac talks to students, educators, historians and others about issues like school unionization, the undervaluing of teachers and the school-to-prison pipeline. The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and More in April 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Its authenticity was called into question in 1990 by art historian and Van Gogh expert Walter Feilchenfeldt, who raised concerns about many purported Van Goghs around the world, the Hartford Courant reported. Museum is glad to finally hear: Yes, it’s really a Van Gogh 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Haynes did not call on critics or historians to venture theories or explain the band’s importance, and the closest we come to a musicological analysis is delivered by the eccentric Velvets protégé Jonathan Richman. The Velvet Underground Meets Its Match in Todd Haynes 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Strauss made an important point, repeated by other historians, that as a nation we don’t have much material on the 1918 influenza epidemic that similarly upended this country. Historical societies across the U.S. are crowdsourcing pandemic time capsules 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

A very different kind of brutality is the subject of Michael Stephenson’s intense, grippingly specific “The Last Full Measure,” a military historian’s account of exactly how soldiers die in battle. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z

As a historian of religion, I often return to the Gnostic Gospels, an astonishing cache of more than fifty sacred texts, discovered in Egypt, in 1945. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

In Slurp, a history of ramen, cultural historian Barak Kushner traces how movements between China and Japan shaped the rise of ramen and gyoza. Chow mein and chips: a brief history of the British Chinese takeaway 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The National Board of Review, which is composed of film historians, students and educators, was founded in 1909. National Board of Review picks 'Social Network' 2010-12-02T21:08:00Z

But in this case fresh eyes, including those of the art historian Paul Joannides, were cast on a forgotten painting and it was taken to the lab to be restored. Titian discovery at National Gallery 2013-01-07T21:51:45Z

The Alabama historian Wayne Flynt, who visited Ms. Lee on Monday and delivered a stack of press coverage, is adamant that she welcomed it. Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Brings Division and Curiosity to Monroeville, Ala. 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

A souped-up online version has just been released by the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, bringing what some historians still consider a work of unsurpassed scope into the age of the iPad. Lab in Richmond Animates Comprehensive 1932 U.S. Atlas 2013-12-25T22:20:08Z

Beneath his curly hair he wears an arrogant little smirk — the smirk, historians suspect, of the young Leonardo, modeling for his master in the studio. In ‘Verrocchio,’ Leonardo’s Master Is the Star 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

At another level, globally minded historians dispute the significance of the Renaissance. Trying to revive the Renaissance 2010-06-03T14:01:00Z

In this first episode, historian David Starkey examines the importance of the portrait painting during the Tudor period – he argues that a template for depicting royalty was set that has endured through the centuries. Commonwealth Games 2010-10-02T05:45:00Z

And yet Thompson was never a conventional historian. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z

“It’s nothing new that they’re trying a whole different range of ways to appeal to the audience,” says historian Beth Bailey, who has charted the Army’s recruitment campaigns. Army recruiters released their first rap video. It wasn’t exactly a mic drop. 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Budiansky, a prolific historian and journalist, devotes more than 50 pages to Holmes’s Civil War career, including diagrams of battlefield movements. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Daddy thinks Layla could learn a lot from holding down a job, and she finds employment through the Federal Writers’ Project, which created jobs for historians, librarians and writers during the Depression. A sizzling summer story: ‘The Truth According to Us,’ by Annie Barrows 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

“Old in Art School” is more meandering, pleasingly and profoundly so, as Painter negotiates the artist she’s becoming: not identical with her historian self, but not running away from it either. Seeing the Art World Through Personal and Political Lenses 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

“These shows were the equivalent of finding dirty magazines under your parents’ mattress,” television historian Robert Thompson told the Sacramento Bee in 2003. Chuck Barris, ‘Gong Show’ host, author of ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Ballet Theater dancers and historians will discuss triumphs and hurdles, memorable moments and the talents and personalities that shaped the company, as well as American ballet. Dance Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Numerous historians, ethicists and laypeople have objected to the continued thwarting of Byrne’s wishes; Epstein reduces this complex and important matter to a footnote. Science or Quackery? The Study of Hormones Has Been Both, a New Book Suggests 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

When we emerge from this nightmare, we will be grateful to David Cay Johnston and other historians of the now for their contributions to our understanding of this dreadful, and remarkable, era. Eating Away at Government From the Inside 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Toledo, a culinary historian, explained her work: She researches the disappearing recipes of Jalisco, her home state, and had combed through old documents to piece together this specific one. How Maru Toledo is preserving Jalisco’s forgotten culinary history 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

The "lions" must serve as stand-ins for the masses, or historians might otherwise feel paralyzed to tell the saga in an orderly manner. 'Lions of the West': A group biography 2011-12-22T00:54:03Z

But creationism’s foremost historian, Ronald L. Numbers, wrote in his monumental study “The Creationists” that “no country outside the United States gave creationism a warmer welcome than Australia.” The scary future of creationism in America 2014-02-09T17:00:00Z

In the acknowledgments of this book is an almost apologetic disclaimer that Klass does not consider herself a historian or expert in any sense — yet she clearly is an expert in narrative and in medicine. Is This a Good Time to Be Born? Comparatively Speaking, Yes 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

“He wrote more than 30 songs that Buck recorded,” the music historian Scott B. Bomar told The Bakersfield Californian. Red Simpson, Who Made Trucks a Vehicle for the Bakersfield Sound, Dies at 81 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

The exhibits reflect the museum's mission to collect and preserve the state's history, said Karen Leathem, museum historian. Tales of Katrina told through La. museum exhibit 2010-10-23T18:01:00Z

Ms. Eisenman was selected by an independent advisory committee made up of curators and art historians led by Heather Pesanti, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs at the Contemporary Austin. Nicole Eisenman Wins $200,000 Artist Prize 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

He reflects the pianist’s archetype in some ways — a composer, a historian, an omnivore, a strategist — but not in others. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

In the end, the panel seemed to agree on a loose and egalitarian notion of who counted as a "historian." ArtsBeat: Historians Look Back, and Inward, at Annual Meeting 2013-01-04T23:52:38Z

That said, it is a valid argument to demand consistent and responsible input from respected elders and historians from the culture being portrayed. With Disney’s “Moana,” Hollywood almost gets it right; indigenous people weigh in 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“As a historian and preservationist, I love how he writes about Providence,” said Sarah Zurier of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission as she led a Lovecraft-like walking tour through many of his places. How to Find the Spirit of H.P. Lovecraft in Providence 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Boal was intrigued by the idea of reconstructing the ballet from historical sources, and Fullington brought in Marian Smith, a musicologist/dance historian at the University of Oregon, as an adviser for the project. PNB turns old documents into a new 'Giselle' 2011-05-25T21:51:07Z

The answer, it turned out, was provided not by historians, but by a German actor, Bruno Ganz, in the film Downfall, which charts the dictator's last few days in his Berlin bunker. Will this be the Downfall of remix culture? Don't bet on it 2010-04-29T11:13:00Z

Some art historians believe there are Lara creations out there that are still believed to be the real thing. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

Riders will make stops at museums, gravesites, stockades, churches and other historic sites along the way, accompanied by Cherokee Nation tribal council member and Trail of Tears historian Jack Baker. News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

Schumer, the comic book historian and author of "The Silver Age of Comic Book Art," isn't interested in that. Colo. massacre casts ugly scar on Batman mythology 2012-07-26T19:57:08Z

The original applejack, which many historians believe was invented by American colonists, was produced by a low-tech method called “jacking.” America’s First Moonshine, Applejack, Returns in Sleeker Style 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

French historians and critics immediately put the book in the top rank of wartime memoirs. Books of The Times: ‘Poilu,’ a French Memoir About Serving on the Western Front 2014-04-20T21:11:41Z

A few weeks ago, a nerdy joke went viral on Twitter: Future historians will be asked which quarter of 2020 they specialize in. This Year Will End Eventually. Document It While You Can. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

“My hunch is that future historians will find the huge success of ‘Bodyguard’ a reflection of the ‘trust no one’ mood in U.K. culture in this period.” ‘Bodyguard’ Was a Sensation in Britain. But Can It Conquer America? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

She also married and had, in quick succession, two daughters, one of whom, Michele Wallace, is now a noted art historian, and a collaborator with Ringgold on activist projects. Faith Ringgold’s Path of Maximum Resistance 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

And this is where Charles, Jewish, charming and social, a collector, art historian and editor, entertained and encouraged Proust. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

The four burial sites are in the earthen floor of what was Jamestown’s historic Anglican church from 1608, a team of scientists and historians announced Tuesday. Bones of early American leaders identified at Jamestown site 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

While some historians in Great Britain continue to talk about the benefits that the empire brought to India, political movements in India want to make the mythology of Hindutva into historical fact. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gates said he also checked Ms. Sykes’s family tree with historians, including Mr. Berlin. Wanda Sykes Finds Ancestors Thanks to Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2012-03-19T22:13:21Z

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Wood distills 50 years of research into this book about “the most creative period of constitutionalism in American history and one of the most creative in modern Western history.” 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Opinions among art historians differ over whether she is pregnant in the painting, or whether 17th century Dutch fashion just made everyone look that way. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z

“This production is the sign that there is a new visibility of minority choreographers and dancers,” Isabelle Launay, a dance historian, said in an interview. Vogue Dancers Subvert a Baroque Spectacle at the Paris Opera 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Many historians maintain that it took a civil war to change the United States from a “union” into a “nation,” though events of recent years have called even that argument into question. The Nation’s Founders, Michael J. Fox and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

It was a path from which she quickly retreated, she explains: "I realized I wasn't an art historian, but an artist." It's about time world-famous painter Marcia Hafif gets a SoCal solo museum show 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

As far as historians can determine, the 12 German scientists at White Oak were the only ones on permanent duty in the Washington area. How Nazi scientists and their wind tunnels ended up in D.C.’s suburbs 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

“I do think there are other cultural shifts that are going on that also play into the return of 1970s design,” said Kate Reggev, an architect and historian at Zubatkin Owner Representation in New York. Let’s Have a (Disco) Ball 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Archaeologists and historians familiar with but not involved in Bailey’s work say they’re intrigued, and believe it’s shedding new light on one of the world’s most enduring criminal mysteries. Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Targoff proves herself as good a popular historian as she is a literary critic. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

"This is Mike Leigh at his best in a long time," said film historian and Cannes veteran Mark Cousins, adding that the family drama could appeal just as much in Asia as in Europe. British, French films in frame for top Cannes award 2010-05-22T23:19:00Z

In a foreword, historian Freddi Williams Evans explains New Orleans’s Congo Square, a marketplace where people of African heritage, both enslaved and free, were allowed to express themselves through music and dance on Sunday afternoons. The best children’s and YA books of the month, February edition 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

He is not a historian, but his presentation of the minutiae of Hitler’s life amounts to an impressive feat of historical research. ‘Look Who’s Back,’ With a Resurrected Adolf Hitler 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the historian Norman Stone once declared that of all the English writers of the 20th century, Wells is the one he would most like to call back from the dead. Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Swiss art historian Jacob Burckhardt also rejects Ruskin in his classic book The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, asking outright what was so special about the primitive world of the Christian middle ages. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z

“He is literally the creator of this world. He is its historian, its creator, its keeper. And so I can’t imagine doing a show that he didn’t believe in or didn’t endorse.” Can ‘House of the Dragon’ Be HBO’s Next ‘Game of Thrones’? 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

He proves equally engaging as a sort of rock historian, describing the musical landscape in Britain in the early 1960s, when rock exploded on the scene. Books of The Times: ‘Who I Am: A Memoir,’ by Pete Townshend 2012-10-09T00:36:11Z

Taylor — a leading English novelist and cultural historian — worries a bit over the definition of a true “lost girl.” Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

His mother is intensely proud of his achievements: Louise Goodall's performance reminded me a little of the Glasgow-born historian Norman Stone's fond memories of his own formidable mother, driving him uncompromisingly onward. Neds - review 2011-01-20T22:00:01Z

“Freud was not a historian, but he knew that men’s minds, even their unconscious minds, change across time and differ across class,” Dr. Gay wrote. Peter Gay, historian who wrote about Freud and the Enlightenment, dies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Far more damaging were the journalists and historians who emerged to poke gaping holes in his research, both in Africa and in the United States. Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

The care even extends to reflections about the historian’s knowledge. Museum Review: Tracing Southern History From the Bottom Up 2011-08-05T18:12:02Z

The gardens of Villa Gamberaia are so famous for their structural rigor and restricted palette that a historian once detailed the tonal variations of green. Setting the Stage for Unreal Men 2010-06-20T15:15:00Z

The Met has commissioned an episode of “The Memory Palace” podcast, from the journalist and historian Nate DiMeo, about the luxurious little space where the future Mrs. Huntington primped for parties. The Period Room as Reconstruction Site 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

As the garden historian Tom Turner has written: “This was virtually unavoidable, since knowledge, education and skill made monks the best gardeners, the best farmers and the best manufacturers of their day.” In medieval monastery gardens, an uplifting model for something we could all use: Refuge 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Kenneth Frampton, the architectural historian who wrote the pivotal book “Modern Architecture: A Critical History,” will be the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale. Venice Architecture Biennale to Honor Kenneth Frampton 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Hardcore audiophiles and Beatles historians will surely revel in the profundity of outtakes and production notes. "All Things Must Pass" is peak George Harrison: 50th anniversary edition serves a feast for the ears 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

At times here, Duffy ceases to be a Tudor historian who is a Catholic, and becomes a Catholic historian. Saints, Sacrilege & Sedition by Eamon Duffy - review 2012-07-27T21:55:05Z

But for many music historians, composers and performers, it's Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde" that deserves the title. Preview: Seattle Opera stages Wagner's influential 'Tristan und Isolde' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

This is not a book for military historians, political scientists or pacifists. The Sinking of the Most Powerful Warship in History 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Dr. Flüeler said that historians, dealers and collectors would eventually be able to upload images of fragments and perhaps determine the original contexts. Yale Buys Collection of Scattered Medieval Pages 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

And so, this cultural historian continues to preserve area history sign by sign, menu by menu, bike by bike, with care and reverence for what would otherwise be lost. From neon to knickknacks, ‘the Smithsonian of the Valley’ puts San Fernando Valley history on display 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

“We have set up a group of historians, and they have started to look at papers,” Ms. Wagner said. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Clooney, sticking pretty much to the facts, shows how a handful of art historians killed the Führer’s dream of annexing and purifying European culture. The Monuments Men is George Clooney’s Art of War 2014-02-06T14:25:53Z

“There is a subtext that Israel is more guilty because it’s Israel,” said Hasia Diner, a historian at New York University. Scholars' Effort to Condemn Israel Fails 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

The award will bring attention to his field, which he said can suffer from a perception that historians have closed the book on ancient Greece. The 2015 MacArthur ‘genius grants’ honor — and surprise — 24 fellows 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

"You have a regime that is super secretive and totally repressive, so making a film like that is a dicey call at best, I'd say," said Dixon, a film historian. Hack attack over Sony's 'Interview' shows risks of naming bad guys 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Magical historian Bathilda Bagshot may still leave her door unlocked, but with a trendy farmer’s market round the corner who knows what her thatched cottage might now be worth? 6 Things You Can Only Learn From Seeing the 'Harry Potter' Play 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

“I am not a historian. I’m not a sociologist. I just see this as an interesting way to document the memories of these 23 people.” Of the 63 people killed during '92 riots, 23 deaths remain unsolved — artist Jeff Beall is mapping where they fell 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

In “Fur, Fortune, and Empire,” the historian Eric Jay Dolin goes back to the Bible: Upon banishing Adam and Eve from Eden, he writes, God provided them with “garments of skins” to cover their nakedness. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

That’s because, like any great DJ, Parrish is an intrepid historian, and his fluency in Black music runs unfathomably deep. Review | In a year without dance floors, Theo Parrish knows the way forward 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

She and her husband, the historian and writer Richard Brookhiser, have been married for over 30 years and both wear rings. Men Who Don’t Wear Wedding Bands — and Why 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

When historians study the fitness DVD era, they may be able to pinpoint its demise to March 11, 2014. Fitness DVD makers learning to go with the flow in a world that expects streaming video 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

The family historian in me hates to throw them away. My Mom Doesn’t Want Me to Get the Covid-19 Vaccine. But I Already Did. 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

It was here that Union forces took control in November 1861, setting the stage for what the historian Willie Lee Rose called the “rehearsal for Reconstruction.” Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Not until the 1960s did Democrats expand their mission decisively beyond what contemporary historians have called “egalitarian whiteness,” and not until the 1970s did they fully commit themselves to women’s rights. The Democrats’ Historic Successes and Contemporary Failures 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

“It’s the largest body of accurately transcribed historical texts online,” said Tim Hitchcock, a historian at the University of Hertfordshire in England and part of the team. As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey 2011-08-17T22:30:15Z

A retail manager by day, Pritchard must be equal parts musicologist, cultural historian, archivist and Internet detective for the blues genealogy project. Grave marker project helps bury the blues 2013-12-30T14:37:27Z

Ayers is not only a seasoned historian, with a lifetime of writing about the American South and the Civil War behind him, he is also a compelling writer. Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

But answers tend to slip through the hands of historians. 50 Years On, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ Still Haunts and Inspires 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

In 1938 she married Robert Goldwater, an American art historian noted for his pioneering work in the field then referred to as primitive art. Louise Bourgeois, Influentual Sculptor, Dies at 98 2010-05-31T21:24:00Z

Some historians believe Columbus stopped by Culebra on his second voyage in 1493, and local lore says it was long a hide-out for pirates preying on the Caribbean trade. Culebra, a Quiet Corner of the Caribbean 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The continuing fracas hung over the gathering, even if few rank-and-file historians were eager to talk about it on the record. As Historians Gather, No Truce in the History Wars 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

“Jackie Robinson in the 1940s is the symbol of black masculinity,” the historian Yohuru Williams notes. Review: ‘Jackie Robinson,’ on PBS, Covers More Than Race and Baseball 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Condoleezza Rice, then national security advisor and an old acquaintance of Gaddis', asked the historian to meet with her staff. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

In Savannah, Ga. — where the tourism industry is king — Black historians, tour guides and museum employees say their main goal is finding a way to balance expectations with education. For Black tour guides in Savannah, the historical is personal 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

To find out what makes a good road-trip movie, I talked to Leo Braudy, a cultural historian at the University of Southern California. What road movies tell us about travel — and ourselves 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

By following several generations of the Hill family, Sedgewick brings agency to the commodity-centric history that historians often pursue to convey the global dimensions of modern capitalism. How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

His collection features works by many of golf’s most prominent writers, players, historians, architects and biographers, dating back hundreds of years. R&A gifted world's biggest collection of golf books 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z