“But I don’t believe that a revolution is pending. Revolutions come through concrete historical processes ...” “You’re an intellectual,” he said, smiling disdainfully. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of historical curiosity, here’s a fun fact: I’m sitting in the room Nancy Reagan was in when she found out Ronald Reagan got shot.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, he did more than just point me to the Rhodes Scholarship; he instructed me to learn the larger historical context of the award. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Yet another common suffragist strategy was the presentation of pageants, which the dictionary defines as “an elaborate public dramatic presentation that usually depicts a historical or traditional event.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I am an avid reader of all signs, and I find that in the historical markers the prose of statehood reaches its glorious best, and most lyric. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like to maintain that the number of intermediates linking me to these historical figures is one: Russell. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second ambiguity occurs, as here, in discussing historical events which don’t quite count as actions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But we would not expect such an event to have happened in historical times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she wanted to be a super architect when she grew up—she loves math and historical buildings and all that—but I hardly understood a word she was saying. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Indeed, because of their historical and rhetorical association with the successful war against British imperialism, they were the most potent forces in the entire political culture. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Here, then, we seem to be on the verge of that fusion of human and animal identity that distinguishes the earliest historical religions of Egypt and Mesopotamia. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several other prominent American revolutionaries also talked as if they were actors in a historical drama whose script had already been written by the gods. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

After he disposed of the president, they would be historical treasures. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hear their happy chatter as they quiz each other on historical facts and dates. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After dinner, all of us crowd onto the couch to watch Mom’s favorite episode of Doctor Who—the one where the hero of Nottingham, Robin Hood, is a real historical person. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

How can students of human history profit from the experience of scientists in other historical sciences? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, austerely pleasant man of about forty, a bachelor, and a writer by profession, being the author of several historical biographies. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Company books preserved in the Island County historical archives record that in 1907 eighteen Japanese were injured or maimed at the Port Jefferson mill. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to replicate Xaviera Hollander’s “Call Me Madam” column in Penthouse, Hefner saw Luce’s contribution as being devoted to the scientific and historical side of sex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Our problems, while distinctive and special, were not entirely unique, and a philosophy that placed those problems in an international and historical context of the greater world and the course of history was valuable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because we are still living their legacy, we have yet to reach a genuinely historical perspective on the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Time, tide, and historical research wait for no man,” he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Failure to recognize that history can, indeed must, be read backwards leads to a whole series of historical questions being outlawed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I also relied on extensive archival photos and documents, scientific and historical research, and the personal journals of Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But there was something essential that wasn’t included in these and other historical records, something that White himself had missed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It had been decreed over forty years before that the building, in appearance a small church with a spire, was a listed building of historical interest. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The private area of the White House occupies about twenty thousand square feet on the top two stories of the main historical structure—the one you’d recognize from photos with its iconic white pillars. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The business of the Indian excavations was completely secret, since they were part of the historical heritage of the nation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such methodological problems have been discussed in great detail for some of the historical sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After driving through a cattle gate, he stopped at another set of historical markers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He won it, if you really think there was a Gallic War ...” Caesar, from the first, had been the one historical figure Phineas refused absolutely to believe in. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, the historical record itself, and not just our own omniscient imaginations, provides the requisite evidence from which we can reconstruct the response to the proslavery argument. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only ten years after the passage and ratification of the Constitution, however, what were treasonable or seditious acts remained blurry and more problematic judgments without the historical sanction that only experience could provide. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

What use one makes of a historical explanation is a question separate from the explanation itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing permanent is on display, and nowhere in the town is there any historical marker. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But laboratory experimentation can obviously play little or no role in many of the historical sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

How is it possible for a historical activity, such as scientific activity, to produce trans-historical truths, independent of history, detached from all bonds with both place and time and therefore eternally and universally valid? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As pharaoh, Cleopatra had a strong personal and historical connection to the Egyptian gods and goddesses. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The ancestors of modern speakers of Thai, Lao, and Burmese all moved south from South China and adjacent areas to their present locations within historical times, successively inundating the settled descendants of previous migrations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While musicians and instrument-makers were finding ways of expanding the expressive range of what they could play, historical destiny was going to hand the bass line an unexpected boost. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is the luck of the draw, or historical accident, whose name gets remembered as the discoverer of a new phenomenon. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The historical authorities differ as to the number of sections a speech ought to be broken down into. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But observation and historical records have failed to uncover a single case of a state’s being formed in that ethereal atmosphere of dispassionate farsightedness. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a few hundred miles the plane ascends to the mountains—and again the historical picture has changed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two books published since then have increased our understanding of that chaotic period of New Zealand history, placed it in a broader historical context, and made its relevance to GGS even clearer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they sometimes behave like actors in a historical drama, that is often how they regarded themselves. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Children’s Aid Society and the New York Foundling Hospital have websites with links to resources and information about historical records and archives. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“And one more thing. You give Effie Wilcox back her house, free and clear. It isn’t worth nothing anyway—apart from its historical value.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The absence of trees was noticeable, and poking around out there I came upon a historical marker, nearly overgrown. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the city-state does not unambiguously enter the historical record until about 500 a.d., when it had a king named Yuknoom Ch'een. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The new doctrines arose partly because of the accumulation of historical knowledge, and the growth of the historical sense, which had hardly existed before the nineteenth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“That sounds lovely,” Velia said sweetly, sounding like a heroine in one of those historical pieces on the arts channel instead of a modern-day girl stranded in the ruins of the Mexican countryside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Although births are not exactly actions, they easily slip into the realm of historical facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On their second morning, they sit in the Place Chateaubriand across from the historical museum, where sturdy benches face flower beds ringed by shin-high metal half loops. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Helenwood was the size of a thimble, if that, and the Calliope Inn was a historical landmark. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The historical importance of animal-derived diseases extends far beyond the collision of the Old and the New Worlds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

History is a cumulative record of success and failure, and the pretense that it can be something other than that is a peculiar shibboleth of historical writing over the last fifty years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Some of those historical characters are so dull.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With folders and top markings outlining historical events. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The book continues to be the focal point of study and debate by scholars and was once described by Martin Luther King Jr. as the “historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

No, they are just frozen historical accidents: the “correct” forms are those that happened to be used in the dialect spoken in the region around London when written English first became standardized several centuries ago. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between these positions is where I want us to end up: staunch because we understand the advantages of being staunch; flexible because we understand the rational and historical necessity to be flexible. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was an historical subject, painted at my father’s desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the artifacts were crudely made, Abbott believed that they must have been fashioned not by historical Indians but by some earlier, “ruder” group, modern Indians’ long-ago ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Joe and the others took my advice about not attempting the escape, but he decided the note should be saved as a historical document, and it later turned up at a very unfortunate time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Sasha said, they were part of the historical record. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Like the time he sent us out with a map of Harlem and challenged us to find historical landmarks and spaces essential to the Harlem Renaissance. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

To a readership obliged to watch in disbelief as the legions toppled one Greek-speaking kingdom after the other, Polybius begged to offer some historical context. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

And, of course, as replication became the test, historical facts, which had once seemed so solid and reliable, came to seem increasingly fragile and tenuous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

School was the perfect place to launch a new word, and since this was a major historical event, Nick wanted it to begin in exactly the right class—seventh-period language arts. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two large circular decals featuring the grotesquely salivating Werewolf emblem that symbolized the historical ferocity of the squadron adhered to the sides of the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there are irreparable gaps in our historical knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pena had become interested while abroad in using genetics as a historical tool—studying family trees and migrations by examining DNA. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ishtar, or her historical doppelgänger, smiled amusedly at me, as if remembering a joke only she understood. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I jumped over the historical marker, grazing my foot, then hopped in pain and continued on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If you put The Lexus and the Olive Tree and this book together, the broad historical argument you end up with is that there have been three great eras of globalization. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the couple seemed to have no troubles with the difference in their historical periods. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

What happened next has become part of historical legend, a tale told to every American schoolchild. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to do a report on a famous historical figure. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The odds, as I have said, are against such an event happening in historical times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hugs me, resting her chin on my shoulder the same way she would relax on my chest whenever she was about to watch one of her historical documentaries. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The real historical puzzle, we might think, is not this eighteenth-century loss of belief in witches and demons, but the progressive re-enchantment of the world in the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Radar says you can’t name a car after a historical figure. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The historical southward expansions of Burmese, Laotians, and Thais from South China completed the Sinification of tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

How do you integrate your projects with local, national, and international events? with historical, biological, geological, and astronomical time scales? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, let us remember that no work can be understood outside its historical context. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The calculation was not made with reference to vast historical or geological shifts—the fall of civilizations, the erosion of mountains. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The results obtained by this procedure were, by historical standards, stunningly high. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now for those juicy historical details you were promised! Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Also seen in the historical background of all the cases was the occurrence of extreme parental violence during childhood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is of profound importance, but it is completely invisible in the standard historical literature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In general, we did not penetrate the countryside, an historical weakness of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just once in his whole life he had held in his hands unmistakable documentary proof of the falsification of a historical fact. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At ten, Monique had begun poring over a mail-order doll catalog as if it were a book—expensive dolls, with names and stories and historical outfits, absurdly detailed and even more absurdly expensive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By a method termed glotto-chronology, based on calculations of how rapidly words tend to change over historical time, comparative linguistics can even yield estimated dates for domestications or crop arrivals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This is volume three. And since Marysville’s public library is not so scrupulous as its historical society, this is the only volume that is missing any of its pages.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As a high school history teacher, it had been her personal mission to cart Dad and me around to every major historical site in the area. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All these problems of the modern world result from the different historical trajectories implicit in Yali’s question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From a historical perspective, however, the lack of correlation between crime and punishment is nothing new. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was fascinated by the stories he had to tell her of historical troop movements and flanking maneuvers. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Similar ones apply to other historical subjects whose place among the natural sciences is nevertheless secure, including astronomy, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, geology, and paleontology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The struggle, therefore, that now begins in the world is extremely complex, involving the historical role of Christianity in the realm of power—that is, politics—and in the realm of morals. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A. A combination of contradictory words B. The outcome of a sequence of events C. An implied reference to a literary or historical event D. A symbolic story or narrative.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I fill this designated historical building with my voice. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I have further established, at least to my own satisfaction, that those states with the shortest histories and the least world-shaking events have the most historical markers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother,” he repeated loudly rubbing in the science; and, leaning back in his chair, “These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let us now look at this portrait in its larger historical and cultural context. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why hypothesize the existence of vast, super-deadly pandemics that seem unlike anything else in the historical record? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For one full week, Mr. Loring played rock and roll beginning with Bill Haley and continuing in a kind of inauthentic historical overview through Buddy Holly until it stopped abruptly with Roy Orbison. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If something has to do with the subject of history, it’s historical. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capitalize the word if you’re referring, even metaphorically, to the historical period. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a Sapiens band first entered a valley inhabited by Neanderthals, the following years might have witnessed a breathtaking historical drama. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her favorite cards, including a note from historical novelist Herman Wouk. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All the vanguard members of the revolutionary generation developed a keen sense of their historical significance even while they were still making the history on which their reputations would rest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As historical sources, colonial reports leave much to be desired. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Reliable historical sources tell us this much,” he said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In all four cases, there was historical evidence of altered states of consciousness, frequently in connection with the outbursts of violence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could say that his essay was philosophical; mine was historical. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I acquired the complete works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and others and probed into the philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities seemed to have a weakness for historical films, particularly ones with a stem moral message. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We already discussed such historical expansions in Chapters 16 and 17 for the Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and other East Asian language families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had given him some books to read, but they were historical novels that used to be my mother’s. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was my first major encounter with historical nonfiction, and I found it fascinating. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Do the notes offer a description of the culture, values, customs, historical, geographic, and economic issues that may add to an understanding of the music? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In history, Mr. Pape does an interesting exam review period, where he puts the desks in a rectangular formation with one historical war image on each desk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There were long, dark alleyways between the historical buildings, hidden paths, secret entrances, and a few unsavory occult shops where only the most mysterious villagers seemed to congregate. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, he decided that even if these shards lacked the golden splendor of Egyptian tombs, they nonetheless had a certain historical value. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership takes shape, that history shapes presidents, rather than vice versa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Stanton asked to present the declaration to the president of the United States “as an historical part of the proceedings.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Baker then gave it to Stanton, who locked it in a safe for almost two years, never telling investigators that he had the important historical document in his possession. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a strictly historical perspective, we can never know the answer to that question. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Neither member of the Adams team could ever comprehend this historical transition as anything other than an ominous symptom of moral degeneration. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, it seems to me that, in the past, good institutions always arose because of a long chain of historical connections from ultimate causes rooted in geography to the proximate dependent variables of the institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Current events were making it almost impossible for me to focus on historical ones. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We now know this, but no one in the sixteenth century realized it, and it has caused a great deal of confusion in the historical literature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some believe Mesopotamia was the site of an even more famous historical garden—the garden of Eden. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to talk about historical events and figures. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doubtless there were several additional dinners, clandestine meetings, and secret sessions that have escaped the historical record. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When historical or archaeological dates are examined in detail, they fail to support the view of irrigation as the driving force for state formation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The couches and chairs were mostly of the sort you would expect to see while visiting a historical site. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The historical anthropologist Gerald Sider once wrote, “We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were institutionally created and guaranteed along with it.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The path they built had no historical basis. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I typed the address of La Cocina and added historical to the search. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This novel is a work of historical fiction. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Researchers have often wondered whether the Inka collapse betokens a major historical lesson. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In this way I believe geographical, chemical, historical facts etc. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lining the road were old Civil War cannons and bronze statues of historical figures, which made Annabeth shudder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks were their historical enemy, and, outside of the factories and except on election day, whites of means simply had no use for them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you’re going to have to wear a historical getup too.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

No one recognized this historical pattern more clearly than Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the most salient historical fact cannot be avoided: No one stepped forward to call their bluff. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

While all the information in this version of the story is accurate, its admirable brevity creates some unfortunate historical casualties of its own. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For various practical and historical reasons, the AT goes nowhere near them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe all our stuff really is in the historical records where he comes from. That would mean he’s not lying about the future. That’s good news, right?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I look at black-and-white photos, it feels like I'm looking at something historical. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It can best be approached by concentrating attention on historical patterns that remain puzzling after the effects of major environmental factors have been taken into account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As the season advanced, Cody replaced the attack with the even more dramatic “Battle of the Little Big Horn...showing with historical accuracy the scene of Custer’s Last Charge.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But he had etched in Macon’s mind certain historical figures, and as a boy in school, Macon thought of the personalities of his horse, his hog, when he read about these people. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Because we preserve and cherish historical things,” she said. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The destruction of the temple of philosophy was not, for him, an historical event; it was a personal experience, the moment when he had awakened from a nightmare. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wish I'd shouted back that I did worship Gandhi, because he was a powerful historical figure who helped free India from British rule. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The only thing I could think of was how Mamá was going to give me one historical paliza when she found out—and she’d find out if we called the authorities. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Petersen House is now a national historical site, and the building and rooms are preserved and restored to the setting of President Lincolns final hours. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, it is argued, you would have set into motion a different sequence of historical events, which those you left behind in our time line would never know about. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the historical residents of Epiphany liked the idea of having the Sillington place parceled off for a subdivision. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And though Grove would eventually release a fictionalized version called The Years of Fear, the original historical account was never published. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The second explains where the idea of ‘the Scientific Revolution’ comes from, why some think there was no such thing, and why it is a sound category for historical analysis. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The snapshot was fated to become a historical artifact, for within a year, these same men would come together again—as leaders of America’s effort to create the atomic bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When she was in the fourth grade, her class had gone on a trip to visit historical places in Manhattan. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the student of broad historical patterns, though, it makes no difference what the specific reasons were in each of those cases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And if the building La Cocina is located in is actually historical...?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the word “appeasement,” carrying as it did a great burden of historical connotations, became a charged one in the debate over the war. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In their faces we read a thousand insights about character which no amount of historical data can satisfy nearly as well. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disarming simplicity of the statement, combined with its quasi-Delphic character, has made the Farewell Address a perennial candidate for historical commentary. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Consequently, in order to understand how Sapiens behave, we must describe the historical evolution of their actions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve regarded it as my duty to disguise nothing—the names, the places, the exact circumstances—I put it all there as a matter of historical record. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Later, in the middle of Mr. Fabian’s textbook voice reading about historical monuments in Washington, DC, Jax shouts, “It’s snowing harder!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

And that, in the end, is what the dialogue with Jefferson became, and the best way to understand its historical significance. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The museum is located in the main room of an old schoolhouse that the local historical society saved from the wrecker's ball by having it declared an historical landmark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Omer said, “It’s more like—history. A historical way of—looking at ourselves—and things.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Having even some general details including maps, pictures, photos, quotes, and individual stories, and historical information helps. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I have therefore avoided historical opinions and gone back primarily to the words of the men themselves, their letters and other documents. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly, the historical legacy of slavery was also an important factor driving American eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Who knows? Maybe I’ll major in history, too, and become a historical psychologist.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She looked for other things, too, because her mother also maintained that silkworms reacted to historical atroci-ties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For him, drama rather than historical narrative was the way of constructing the appearance of reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The study of human history does pose real difficulties, but those recognized historical sciences encounter some of the same challenges. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the Cognitive Revolution onwards, historical narratives replace biological theories as our primary means of explaining the development of Homo sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many such nods to the phenomenon of the circus in a historical sense, though it is hardly a traditional circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There is no evidence that enslaved people had good living conditions; in fact, the opposite was true, according to the historical record. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

His avowed agenda was to give the Germans a sense of their historical destiny through the arts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The book’s subject matter is history, but the approach is that of science—in particular, that of historical sciences such as evolutionary biology and geology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said I saw our struggle as parallel to this famous rebellion, and we discussed this historical episode for quite a while. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That each living thing was specially designed, that one species did not become another, were notions perfectly consistent with what our ancestors with their limited historical records knew about life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have chosen stories that represent the development of science in its historical context. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the historical trend is in the opposite direction: adverbs and adjectives are more often distinguished today than they were in the past. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

"We can make of the historical record that there was depopulation and movement of people from internecine warfare and diseases," he said to me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world, because the literate societies with metal tools have conquered or exterminated the other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom always said she named me after Darius the Great, but I think she and Dad were setting themselves up for disappointment, naming me after a historical figure like that. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As I combed through the historical records, I could see what Mollie could not see about her husband. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

What she decides makes a difference in others’ lives, and she feels part of a great historical unfolding. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was more interested in historical than medical material. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s rather interesting; I had based our estimated taxes on a historical rate of return of approximately 10% annual yield. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The challenge now is to develop human history as a science, on a par with acknowledged historical sciences such as astronomy, geology, and evolutionary biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The table greatly simplifies a complex mass of historical facts: see the text for some of the many important caveats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The result is a structural conflict in the nature of science, a conflict whose origins are historical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Not the way we wanted it to. But my mom sure enjoyed my newfound mastery of Spanish cuisine. I also know some obscure historical trivia about Spain, the Spanish Armada, and, for some reason, Spaniels.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It can be debunked with a glance at any page of a historical reference book, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, which will show that very few words retain their original senses. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Today she was talking about how well-rounded certain historical figures were, begging us to become “Renaissance men or women.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But then, historical accident comes into their story. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It told of a “historical counterrevolutionary,” who as a local official before Liberation had killed two Communist guerrillas. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his credit, Reynie recognized the names of a few places, a few mathematic principles, and one or two important historical figures, but it wouldn’t do him any good. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We lunged about in the garage like two swashbucklers in an especially inept historical film for several moments, fork and cutlass clicking against each other madly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to most historical accounts, the Osage Reign of Terror spanned from the spring of 1921, when Hale had Anna Brown murdered, to January 1926, when Hale was arrested. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A gold plaque declares it a historical landmark. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The properties of historical systems that complicate attempts at prediction can be described in several alternative ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over like a cigarette should is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In their spare time, they drew maps of new bus, subway, and streetcar lines, or read up on historical public transit systems. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We are speaking of the collective white man’s historical record. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The results never completely caught on—but they endure as a historical curiosity of some idiosyncrasy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Doc: Now, when we use our twenty-first-century minds to examine the quote within its historical context, something about it isn’t quite right. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Outdoor activities, historical sites, shopping opportunities—subcategorized, of course, into fashion, antiques, and souvenirs.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There’s not much historical evidence that the Hartletops’ house is historic. home/hone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A walled adobe compound styled after the historical missions. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Paul Revere’s ride is perhaps the most famous historical example of a word-of-mouth epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had the true historical sense,” McMillan recollected, “as soon as I woke up in the morning I would have written down in a notebook: ‘I made a big invention last night.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the biggest of these unsolved problems is to establish human history as a historical science, on a par with recognized historical sciences such as evolutionary biology, geology, and climatology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists usually seek to attribute historical developments to cold economic and demographic factors. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under its guidelines, by fourth grade, students will devote half their reading time to nonfiction, including historical documents, maps, and other “informational texts”—even such materials as train schedules and recipes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

White Christians have also forgotten several elementary historical details. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

However, they also have significant social and historical meaning that helps to explain their incredible longevity in the children’s song repertoire. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Physically, chemically, historically—” “Historically,” he grinned, “Astound me with your grasp of historical minutiae, E’lir.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We were offered, as Nation of Islam doctrine, historical and divine proof that all white people are cursed, and are devils, and are about to be brought down. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Discoveries are moments in an historical process that is intended to be irreversible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

With an allergy to abstraction and a phobia of cliche, Wilkerson trains a magnifying glass on the historical blob called “the Great Migration” and reveals the humanity of the people who compose it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first century of the Fourth Age there were already to be found in the Shire several libraries that contained many historical books and records. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The historical record makes it perfectly clear, to be sure, that Jefferson was orchestrating the campaign of vilification, which had its chief base of operations in Virginia and its headquarters at Monticello. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He returned to America in time to be elected the first vice president of the United States, which most observers, including Adams himself, interpreted as a popular mandate on his historical contribution to independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t it feel like we’re in that historical museum they have out in Vegas?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Prediction in history, as in other historical sciences, is most feasible on large spatial scales and over long times, when the unique features of millions of small-scale brief events become averaged out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That Hitler fits snugly with his nemesis Winston Churchill is a historical accident. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

An arrow on the edge of my map pointed south to Katahdin Iron Works, site of an improbable nineteenth-century factory in the woods and now a state historical monument. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, successful methodologies for analyzing historical problems have been worked out in several fields. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All of the songs are rife with musical, cultural, and historical significance. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In effect, if Adams had a different story to tell, if he saw a different pattern in the historical swirl they had both lived through, he should write out his account and let posterity judge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The prison continued to grow and operate around its historical core. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course the reporter had been lied to big-time up at the cate, but Grandma’s lies were more interesting, even historical. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the video we answered their questions about the trip and gave them the historical background of our name and foundation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A three-mile comet!—it was exactly the sort of extravagant notion that the whitecoats sought to consign to the historical dustbin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Garfield's case is difficult to analyze based on historical documents alone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Along the shore was a historical district with tall mansions, palm trees, and wrought-iron fences. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is because children’s songs often preserve the social and historical meaning of a culture and the identity of its people. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In Japan, sumo is not only the national sport but also a repository of the country’s religious, military, and historical emotion. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And on our small planet, this moment in history is a historical branch point as profound as the confrontation of the Ionian scientists with the mystics 2,500 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories and the We Were There series about kids who lived at great historical moments, but my very favorite was Black Beauty. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of these things as I read the historical markers across the country, thought how the myth wipes out the fact. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The continued influence of settler colonialism and genocide show up when history is retold in a way that celebrates settlers and makes Indigenous peoples disappear from the historical record. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Find books about historical events and places you’ve always wanted to visit,” suggested Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were racks loaded with mysteries, Newbery winners, historical fiction, biographies, and short stories. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Northern posturing on this matter was insufferable, as Jackson saw it, since their oozing arguments transformed a geographic accident and a product of historical circumstance into a willful sin. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And somehow even this was part of the search—the physical beauty of the black body was all our beauty, historical and cultural, incarnate. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They pulled over near a historical marker with a picture on it. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

With a stroke of the pen the military changed world history, erasing every incident, ideology, and historical figure of which the regime disapproved. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I work in historical research,” her father said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Native Americans’ interactions with their environments were as diverse as Native Americans themselves, but they were always the product of a specific historical process. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One streetlight is burning above a historical marker and, knowing I don’t have to reach Beaver Corners before dawn, I stop and read it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He is eleven years old, in the sixth grade, on a school field trip of some historical intent. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He emphasized the historical achievements of Africa and Africans, and noted how foolish it was for whites to see themselves as a chosen people and an intrinsically superior race. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an unforeseen bonus for the purposes of this book, evolutionary biology is a historical science forced to use methods different from those of the laboratory sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To tackle the drived/drove question, Mr. Aiden and Mr. Michel assigned two undergraduates to read every textbook on historical English grammar, compile a list of irregular verbs and follow their fortunes through the centuries. Books of The Times: ‘Uncharted,’ by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel 2013-12-24T20:44:07Z

Mr. Saunders, a Tibetan Buddhist, drew on the Buddhist notion of the bardo — the phase of existence between death and rebirth — bringing a supernatural layer to the historical setting. George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Dunham worked alongside the medieval scholar Helen Castor to understand the nuances of the period while diverging from the historical record when she saw fit. Lena Dunham Channels a Voice of a (Different) Generation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Stone's original exposé of the financial world lucked into a historical moment: it opened two months after the Black Monday stock-market crash. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z

Also on view from the foundation’s collection will be dozens of paintings, photographs, drawings, installations and sculptures organized by art historical moments that Mrs. Prada feels are relevant today. The Prada Foundation’s New Arts Complex in Milan 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Smiley's eye is keen, and the book's historical pageant is often mesmerizing and always elegantly composed — and yet, "Private Life" leaves you thinking about its smaller events rather than its large ones. 'Private Life': Jane Smiley's quiet novel of a Midwestern girl's odyssey 2010-05-05T22:35:00Z

The play draws on the historical material in another unusual way: The Supreme Court justices are represented in courtroom scenes mostly through their voices, in actual recordings of the arguments. A Playwright Finds Drama, and Humor, in Roe v. Wade 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

“Head Hunters” was intended as a historical picture, depicting the Kwakwaka’wakw’s world before European contact. Book re-examines vilified film about First Nations people 2014-04-02T20:44:26Z

Mr. Six spent 18 months doing historical and technical analysis of the painting, including paint sample analysis, X-radiography and other scanning technologies. A New Rembrandt? A Dutch Art Dealer Says He’s Found One 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The film is earnestly and unabashedly melodramatic to an extent that may baffle audiences accustomed to clever, knowing historical fictions. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The show’s story, adapted from a popular manga that also spawned several live-action series and movies in Japan, is framed as a historical record of how this alt-Japan and the shogunate came to be. This Netflix Anime Uses Alt-History to Explore Gender Norms 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z

The text draws largely on the actual words of historical figures, who are represented by vocal soloists. A Festival Built for Risky Business 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z

Frederick Taylor, author of Exorcising Hitler, will give a historical overview. Choose March's Reading group book 2013-02-28T09:55:16Z

The bumps in the road around these discussions are historical, and require an examination of our very selves. The American media has no idea how to talk about race on-screen 2013-12-05T00:00:00Z

In the third, a historical figure appears in the story but as a mere shade or wan caricature. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

Although the Sullivan/Clinton campaign has more historical commemorative markers than any other event in New York, it has been nearly forgotten. Military museum slates program on Iroquois battle 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Kuhn argued that science was not just about the simple delineation of material facticity but also included "an apparently arbitrary element, compounded of personal and historical accident". The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn – review 2012-07-03T07:00:03Z

The commitment is to do both historical exhibitions, like you'd see in museums, that really explore things thematically, generationally, conceptually. Paul Schimmel and Hauser & Wirth pick downtown spot for arts complex 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

But the painting disappeared from the historical record in the late 18th century. A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash. Now There’s No Sign of It. 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Some bio-novels, for instance, put their historical characters into situations that they never actually experienced, or imagine encounters between historical characters who never met, sometimes in a comic, carnivalesque mode. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z

Providing historical context is part of what Favreau calls an effort to “center people.” “The Wilderness,” Reviewed: Can a Partisan Podcast Save the Democratic Party? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

About how to create for Americans the connections in the plays that are second nature back home: What, for instance, might be an American historical equivalent for the War of the Roses? Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Echoing McCullough, who rails against American historical illiteracy, the self-deprecating goof in Hanks nevertheless makes light of his own campaign against historical ignorance. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

I love historical fiction, especially when it features nontraditional strong women heroines. Review | A former congressman asked his old colleagues for book suggestions. Here’s their list. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

I took seriously our visits to living, but very much historical, houses of worship. 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

As the show’s historical consultant, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, said: “What does the average person know about the Black elite in New York in the 1880s? The answer is very little if anything.” ‘The Gilded Age’ Explores a Rarely Seen Chapter of Black History 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Critics argue that foreign museums helped to preserve countless historical treasures from destruction or theft. King Croesus's golden brooch to be returned to Turkey 2012-11-25T13:45:53Z

Blanchard said it would have been “inconceivable” in the 1980s to put on an exhibition dealing with the forced display of human beings, because “people didn’t think it was a major historical subject.” Remembering the Racist History of ‘Human Zoos’ 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Such scenes of forced dislocation occur in many societies, at many historical flash points. 'Bitter and Sweet' is a tale of long-lost love, and a local history lesson 2012-09-26T22:23:05Z

This is a gritty port city, where locals devour a historical mishmash of ingredients while walking the cobbled streets – and in the culinary footsteps of the island’s conquerors, which include Arabs, Spaniards and Normans. Frittola – a gutsy breakfast on the streets of Palermo 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

For example, Laura Pulido's "Landscapes of Racial Violence" recounts specific sites of historical atrocities such as the lynchings that once took place outside of the city's early jail near Grand Park. 'LAtitudes' navigates the histories and cultures of L.A. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Meise noted that the issue is far from being a purely historical one, as there seem to be new pushes to reinforce heterosexual norms in places like some U.S. schools. ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Dubstep is something I’m a part of, and it’s hard for me to imagine myself as part of a big historical movement just yet. Flux Pavilion aims to inject dubstep with 'emotionally epic' songs 2012-06-14T20:33:00Z

This exhibit aims “to explore our relationship with nature through the lens of historical ecology,” and imagine a greener future. The Week Ahead: Dino Day at the Burke, Gerard Schwarz at Benaroya Hall 2014-02-26T22:37:34Z

Meanwhile, a new generation, less interested in covering up historical sins, exposed the ways governments, museum officials, dealers and buyers often systematically frustrated attempts to return stolen assets and art to the original owners. The Story Behind ‘Woman in Gold’: Nazi Art Thieves and One Painting’s Return 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

The filmmaker, 47, earned his first DGA nomination for the historical drama about World War II code breaker Alan Turing. Clint Eastwood, Richard Linklater nominated for Directors Guild Award 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

“The Old Drift” is an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism. Salman Rushdie Reviews a Sweeping Debut About the Roots of Modern Zambia 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Two mats, a bowl, clay masks, a hat streaming with multicolor ribbons: such are the elements from which a series of scenes, fantastical and historical, are conjured. Drawing on the Past, Living in the Present, Dreaming of the Future 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

It allows you to check how busy the airport is likely to be on a specific day, at a specific time, based on historical data. Perspective | Don’t make these common holiday travel mistakes 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

In a series of letters, officials with the African American museum responded to the Quanders, noting the historical importance of the family and their inclusion in previous exhibitions. A thorny question for African American museum: Whose story do we tell? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

An additional factor was the loss of living historical memory of prewar Vienna. Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z

Mr. Miles was part historical sleuth, part preservationist, part bard. William Miles, Maker of Documentaries About Black History, Dies at 82 2013-05-19T03:14:06Z

Theoharis gives us the historical background, located in the civil rights movement; Khan-Cullors gives us the personal background, located in her life. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Instead, I mean full, rigorous accountings of historical figures, as well as artists beyond mid-career who have been in it for the long haul — a generation or more. What's next for the Getty's Pacific Standard Time? This critic has an idea 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The show employs a historical adviser who agreed. Julian Fellowes: The Creator of ?Downton Abbey? 2011-09-11T05:00:22Z

“Our people are still healing from historical trauma,” said Loren Anthony, one of the actors who walked out. Native American Actors Work to Overcome a Long-Documented Bias 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a striving that has its own historical roots and theoretical precedents. A Filmmaker Trying to Break Free from Instagram Modernity 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

That is, Pope Francis — the leader of a church with, despite a record of social conscience, little historical commitment to the burghers — says he’s got to pay more attention to their plight. Who’s speaking up for the shrinking middle class? Not who you’d expect 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

The blast sent disorienting shock waves across a wide area, in view of the historical and constitutional role of the Fourth Estate. Analysis | Your A-to-Z guide to the media mayhem during President Trump’s first six months in office 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

At the time, about half of the commission wanted to relocate the sculpture, and about half recommended additional historical research before making a decision. Unanimous Vote Is Final Step Toward Removing Roosevelt Statue 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

But he worried that a realistic historical setting would blunt the impact of the idea, making it seem too narrow and political. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

But is this actually a work of historical ? Stranger fiction 2011-08-01T11:53:49Z

But a dark undercurrent runs through the book, as Phillips grapples with the dispiriting historical moment of January 2017: The Trump inauguration nears and the world feels disordered and frightening. A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

“When you are faced with this kind of historical contradiction, what is liberation?” Tomi Ungerer’s Triumphant Return 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Created by American costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, the costumes, of which there were 7,500 pieces, unapologetically play with notions of historical accuracy. Bridgerton: in defense of "inaccurate" costumes in period dramas 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

Around the country in recent years, people have been questioning historical representations in public art. These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Taking place long before the events of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” the books fill in the historical record of those better-known stories. Review | J.R.R. Tolkien’s latest posthumous book may actually be the last 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Like D'Arcy and Marryat, Butler successfully employs the physicality and blood of the vampire to explore and dismantle the historical and "biological" justifications for racial prejudice. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

They are an often-overlooked record of society: artistic expression, cultural vessel, household ware and historical document all in one. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

A historical restaurant revisited by a young team, Léon now features a gastronomic dining room and a casual cafe and bar within the old space. In Lyon, a new museum celebrates a longstanding culinary tradition 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

But the idea of a big corporation sending books to the shredder raises different historical precedents. Perspective | A hateful, conspiracy-filled book just got harder to buy. That’s no cause for celebration. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Oates said that reading about the conservative beliefs of many widely revered historical figures such as Wilson was "upsetting," but not surprising. Joyce Carol Oates takes on Ivy League society in new novel 2013-03-08T23:42:08Z

Nineteen actors are deployed here, mostly as conveyances of historical facts. Review | In ‘The Great Society,’ history marches numbingly on, and on, and on, and on 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

A collaboration might have a paragraph of historical summary. Supreme Copies: The Instagram That Attempts to Decode Supreme Clothing 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

So muses narrator Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s thrilling new historical novel Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to her Booker Prize-winning hit, Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel Continues Her Bloody Brilliant Tudor Saga With Bring Up the Bodies 2012-05-09T10:45:37Z

The musical's book by Craig Lucas is more sophisticated on the level of character and historical context, though the amorous story line is still tangled in places. Take note of these four musicals for a Tony, then vote for 'Fun Home' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Until he was almost 70, Camilleri was a minor historical novelist who was better known as a director of Pirandello. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z

The children’s first names are taken from American Indian historical figures; their middle names are Danish, in honor of their mother’s heritage. Michael Blake, 69, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Today, the penitentiary is a historical site and all international conflicts are over. Overnighter: In Bustling Vietnam, a Rare and (still untrammeled) Escape 2012-01-13T17:53:11Z

Harvey was still producing ambitious books – Collision of Empires, Sex in Georgian England, A Muse of Fire – but the historical establishment now felt no compunction about ignoring them. The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax 2013-07-10T16:35:00Z

You think the baroque/modern historical games of “Goldberg” are going to cripple the work with pretentiousness, but the opposite happens. New York City Ballet Double Bill at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

“A Different Picture” makes this clear in a series that, selection after selection, is at once an act of cine-activism and of historical revisionism. Don’t Cry, Resist! Movies From a Female Revolution 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

It is not sacred space or a part of a historical preservation act. Review | In ‘Bridgerton,’ Shonda Rhimes stakes a sumptuous, provocative claim on Netflix — and the traditional period drama 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

It enjoyed both critical and commercial success and set Ibbotson down a path of alternating what she called her "rompy books" with longer, well-researched historical novels for a slightly older age group. Children's author Eva Ibbotson dies aged 85 2010-10-22T09:16:00Z

"It's historical fiction, but the historical signposts along the way keep it rooted in history." 'Marco Polo' brings the court of Kublai Khan to Netflix 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

He has digitalized 82 issues with 291 to go, and is leaning on Regina, now 80, for historical context. Soul Told Black Musicians’ Stories. Its Archives Are Going Digital. 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

The Starz series is based on a set of historical romance novels by Diana Gabaldon that have long been bestsellers, and that popularity has translated to the show. “Outlander” stars on spanking, TV sex and the female gaze: “Women have been starved for quite a while” 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

“If we can bring this back,” he said, “the historical back story could deepen the development of African diaspora food in America and better tell the real story of Southern food.” Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

The school’s historical mascot is the Antioch Radicals. Thank You for Asking 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

From the waters of the Nile to the luxury of the Orient Express, Poirot is a classic of the crime-solving genre both in his logic-based methodology to the historical setting in which he operates. TV detectives 2010-05-04T14:58:00Z

“For years, some of them still called me each Christmas,” said Emerson, who has led the historical site since 1997. Near Niagara Falls, U.S. and Canadian forts from the War of 1812 still face off 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Other than the fabulous Desert Island Discs, its programmes either intellectualise music or put it into historical context. Rewind Radio: Amanda Vickery On… Men; Wheel and Come Again: 50 Years of Jamaican Music; Darwin's Tunes – review 2012-08-11T23:05:43Z

The country's former capital Mdina was used to represent the central city of Westeros to great effect; the many well-preserved, historical buildings fit perfectly with the theme of exotic, medieval grandeur. Five 'Game of Thrones' Destinations Fans Should Visit 2014-04-04T11:27:45Z

All these are wonderful books, but Fitzgerald got even better with her historical novels. Michael Dirda reviews ‘Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life,’ by Hermione Lee 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The colossal popularity of American Idol was a historical accident, or a case of supreme good timing. 'American Idol' Was a Victim of Its Own Success 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Beneath the head-spinning plot twists of “Hang the Moon,” historical research gives the novel its ballast. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Kim Scott, the Australian writer and Miles Franklin award winner whose historical novel That Deadman Dance, set in the early years of the 19th century, won for the South East Asia and Pacific region. Commonwealth writers' prize announces regional winners 2011-03-04T16:23:16Z

Fulton Theatre: A historical theater with Broadway-style musicals, children’s shows and experimental theater. Leaving technology behind on vacation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The jury said Nagy showed “masterful control of every aspect of the craft of filmmaking, a narration that transcends its historical context.” Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear goes to ‘Loony Porn’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Through Jan. 19, exhibitions of light sculptures and artworks include projections on historical buildings, and installations on the street and in parks. In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Germany; California; Amsterdam 2013-12-06T17:00:00Z

Keating deliberately chose a historical setting, realising that the Ghote of Bombay, as originally envisaged, could not exist in modern Mumbai. HRF Keating obituary 2011-03-28T17:04:57Z

Accordingly, critical evaluations of his work—especially the ones that approach the music with some historical breadth—don’t really figure into his gestalt. Lil Nas X Is the Sound of the Internet, Somehow 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

They believe “today’s Churchill is mobilized from the grave by those who feel that — somewhere, sometime — they surrendered their historical patrimony.” Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Here, those details are evident in historical documents. A Museum Takes a New, Unvarnished Look at a Massacre 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

As a western-mad teen in London, Samuel was thrilled to read about these historical figures at the local library. The Rich History of Black Westerns Enters a New Era 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Hulu’s “The Great” supplies its own asterisk: “An occasionally true story,” it needlessly acknowledges, as it romps and rambles through a loosely historical take on Catherine the Great’s rise to power in 18th-century Russia. Review | ‘The Great’ has problems balancing its extravagant snark with its dramatic impulses 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

To censor or redact books on school reading lists is a form of denial: shutting the door on harsh historical realities — whitewashing them or pretending they do not exist. Critic?s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You 2011-01-06T23:26:12Z

My reading tastes have always varied widely — from novels to the sciences and to historical works — but they are constantly grounded in curiosity and trying to place moments into context. How Stacey Abrams turned heartbreak into a career plan — and romance novels 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The program’s big historical event was the revival of “Tracer,” the last of the Taylor-Rauschenberg collaborations, unseen onstage since 1964 and, after no more than 10 performances back then, remembered by few. Review: Paul Taylor’s ‘Tracer’ Recalls a Dance and an Artist 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

The contrast between emojis and graffiti or other painterly marks also suggests the historical difference between the gestures of Abstract Expressionism and the newer, digital shorthand for human emotion. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Together with manuscripts still in private hands in the city, they constitute one of the continent’s great historical treasures. African Art Is Under Threat in Djenne-Djenno 2012-08-02T12:00:00Z

It isn’t, in fact, that hard to tell the difference between an offensive depiction that is a historical artifact, and one that is genuinely felt and newly delivered with malign intent. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created

On balance, “The Judge Hunter” never entirely settles on what it means to be, resulting in an enjoyable, if slightly uneven patchwork of the comic, serious, satirical, historical, tragic and utterly inconsequential. Review | The timely message in Christopher Buckley’s historical novel 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

They refer to the 13 episodes of “Whisker Wars” as “the historical documents.” A competitive beardsman saw his home burn. But then fans of his reality show came to help. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

These fudging techniques seem a deliberate attempt to both atomise and unify, perhaps in an effort to consider a shared legacy of colonialism and the inaccuracy or incompleteness of historical narratives. Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura – review 2013-02-06T08:00:01Z

The larger historical context for queerness in the U.K. has changed since the establishment of the monarchy. The hidden history of queer British royals 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z

The real treasures are the local libraries and historical societies. Q&A: Foraging for Forgotten History Around Washington 2013-07-02T21:46:38Z

The BBC broadcast detectives searching his home in August 2014 while Richard, 77, one of Britain’s best known entertainers, was away on holiday as part of an investigation into allegations of historical child sex offences. BBC to pay damages to Cliff Richard for televising police raid 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough says Glass brought the museum's public spaces to life with historical theater, programs and U.S. citizenship ceremonies. Smithsonian history museum director to retire 2011-06-27T16:05:11Z

An expert at condensing the story without losing its gravitas, Hinds is also talented at distilling sophisticated literary and historical traditions into clear and readable prose. The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More. 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

And a growing number of state-funded historical institutions have come under political fire. Will America Be Ready for Its 250th Birthday? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

Taken together these varied visual formats and the ambitious historical canvas lend a cinematic scope that belies the trilogy’s original broadcast in three installments on Channel 4 in Britain. 2010-01-30T16:59:00Z

Despite some historical anachronisms and irregularities, I liked it a lot … Argo is but another indication of Ben Affleck's genius in creating edge-of-the-seat thrillers. What films have you been watching? 2012-11-19T16:49:50Z

It's a historical thing as far as our band goes. Country band Alabama back on road, 10 years after saying goodbye 2013-04-05T19:44:39Z

Despite its reputation as a historical oddity, Prohibition was another development in the growing power of the American state in the early 20th century, she argues. Stocking filler 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

This collaboration looks like a win-win situation for a city drowning in historical monuments yet stretched for funds. Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld to Aid Rome’s Fountains 2013-06-03T10:03:39Z

Her account blends popular science writing with historical detective work and narrative flair. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z

Catalog dumps are typically graceless, but here is an example with historical merit and also a sense of wit. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

You can stream the opera individually on Spotify, but you shouldn’t pass up this inexpensive box, full of similarly worthy historical recordings in excellently restored sound. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z

“They’re all historical artifacts that tell us a lot about the industry in which they were made, the cultures that they were speaking to.” In a new series, TCM takes a look at ‘problematic’ classics 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

The opera “Heart of a Soldier,” ranging far beyond Rescorla’s final days, traces the broad sweep of his life against the volatile historical landscape of the late 20th century. ?Heart of a Soldier,? Opera About Rick Rescorla, 9/11 Hero 2011-09-04T03:00:09Z

In the resulting social media firestorm, some pointed out that “Hamilton” had done the same thing, only in reverse — casting actors of color to play white historical figures. Authenticity in casting: From 'colorblind' to 'color conscious,' new rules are anything but black and white 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Currently, imaginary dystopias are replacing familiar fictional backgrounds of historical upheaval such as the French Revolution or the second world war as places where children are forced into managing their own lives. Book doctor: Are children's books darker than they used to be? 2013-06-24T16:30:35Z

One obvious danger is the creation of fake historical episodes. The slippery slope of using AI and deepfakes to bring history to life 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Clergue and several others first formed a group called Castellet to salvage the crumbling castle, promote archaeological excavations and hold historical festivals. Languedoc, France: Brutal History and Beautiful Setting 2010-05-07T18:37:00Z

This is Stout’s eighth novel but her first work of historical fiction. Family’s wartime story inspires ‘A Tiny Piece of Sky’ 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

But “Leopoldstadt” is not quite as tightly constructed as “Arcadia,” say, or “Jumpers” or “Travesties”; it has too many themes to wrangle, and some dense historical exposition is unconvincingly disguised as small talk. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

It was the body itself that carried the work’s rich cultural and historical context. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

But this historical material seems vividly present here. The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally – review 2012-11-09T22:50:01Z

Led by a chatty, seductive docent along semispooky hallways, patrons gather in imaginatively designed exhibit rooms that depict the historical quirks of Western gastronomy. Caf? Nordo's latest Seattle show takes diners through a 'Cabinet of Curiosities' 2012-05-17T20:00:09Z

Also featured in the Rambo Blu-ray set are strange documentaries that combine your standard making-of feature with historical background on the real global conflicts that supplied these movies with their bloody source material. Rambo: The greatest deleted scene ever 2010-08-14T18:01:00Z

Essayist that she is, Rebecca Solnit pursues her subjects down multiple pathways of thought, feeling, memory and experience, aided by historical research and the intuitive literary hunch, as needed. What George Orwell’s Roses Tell Us About His Politics 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Interesting to note that The History of True Crime in the Midwest goes all the way back to 1825 – anyone up for a historical season of Fargo? Fargo recap: season two episode ten – The Castle 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Obscuring bitter truths about historical crimes helps perpetuate the fantasy of American benevolence, which makes it easier to sell contemporary imperial adventures -- such as the invasion and occupation of Iraq -- as another benevolent action. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Such a simple but profound shift of perspective — the changing from an ahistoric lens to a historical one — is where “We Are Not Yet Equal” excels. Two New Audiobooks Inspire Teenagers to Make Real Change 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

After decades of work bringing evangelicals, Mormons and other long-neglected religious groups into the broader picture, these scholars contend, the historical profession is overdue for a “mainline moment.” A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered 2013-07-23T20:45:51Z

Smith carefully highlights this uneasy existence, adding further suspense to a story already filled with historical drama. Kids' books: Talking with 'Flygirl' author Sherri L. Smith 2010-05-21T21:55:00Z

Brussels might have been an historical accident as the capital of the bloc, but it was inevitable for Mr. Menasse. Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a tantalizing interpretation of history, of one man’s nudging of world events, supported by anecdotes and memory if not historical scholarship. This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Our describers then wove those reflections into a comprehensive description, incorporating contextual and historical information to present a rich, verbal picture for blind and partially sighted people to enjoy. Audio description: let's hear it for arts, heritage and culture for all 2013-05-24T16:31:03Z

They had a sense of themselves as historical figures—aware of their lineage, invoking their responsibility to future generations. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a reminder that “Of Mics and Men” is both historical record and personality sketch. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

So the room has a strange status — not quite a historical artifact, not entirely a shrine, more like an architectural prod to the conscience. Perspective | Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

But “Fly,” which was performed to a crowded and enthusiastic audience in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Victoria Theater here on Sunday, is as unabashedly a theatrical event as it is a historical one. Dance Review: Modern-Dance History Times Five, With Plenty of Theatricality 2010-12-14T06:00:17Z

TUE Archaeologist Scott Williams presents historical evidence for shipwrecks and survivors predating European and American exploration of the Pacific Northwest, all ages, 7-9 p.m. Seattle Art Fair, Umjoa Fest, and Naval Aviation Fly Day 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Exploring alternatives, he moves even further back on the historical scale, trying his luck as a rag-and-bone man. Review: Nostalgia for a 1970s British Adolescence in ‘Cradle to Grave’ 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

A robust economic recovery in both the East and the West was a boon, Jähner says, but such “good fortune” had “nothing to do with historical justice.” Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

The impulse to teach history is admirable, but history is never neutral, and institutions have a tendency to equate their mission with the triumph of larger historical forces. Perspective | The National Archives used to stand for independence. That mission has been compromised. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

And whether or not you care about these historical and theoretical debates, or the sleight-of-hand methodological moves Ms. Lockhart has performed in making the work, the exhibition is exceptionally handsome, meditative and, at times, mesmerizing. Art Review: ‘Sharon Lockhart/Noa Eshkol,’ at the Jewish Museum 2013-01-31T23:00:41Z

I asked the curators to forget about art historical movements and schools. Tate Britain: On the move 2013-05-03T18:40:01Z

The results, with their mix of academic painting and vernacular craft, carve out a space for work that asserts a black identity within the art historical continuum. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Whether any of the tools would lead to a different conclusion - that Monroe's death from acute barbiturate poisoning was a probable suicide - remains a historical "What If?" Questions linger 50 years after Monroe's death 2012-08-01T15:07:11Z

Such passages provide the reader with some illuminating historical perspective and try to project a balanced kind of reasonableness on the part of the author. Books of The Times: In ?Gunfight,? Adam Winkler Traces the Gun-Control Battle 2011-10-09T21:04:24Z

In a way, Mike Signorile and Chad Griffin framed a remarkable generation, each representing a different historical moment, Signorile at the start and Griffin at the close. Meet two activists who brought sweeping change to the gay rights movement

He also suggested that it was partly due to wider historical forces. Hilary Mantel wins Walter Scott historical fiction prize for Wolf Hall 2010-06-21T15:03:00Z

A more elaborate interpenetration of the historical and the personal comes in Act II. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

A cannon was initially found as part of the wreck but archaeologists at the time misidentified it as dating from a different historical period, Clifford told CNN. Shipwreck off Haiti could be Columbus’Santa Maria, explorers say 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The current appeal of historical writing was another theme, with Marr denouncing some of it as "history as comfort food". Radio review: Start the Week 2010-10-12T07:00:00Z

That, however, is as close as Prince-Bythewood’s varied back catalogue gets to the kind of serious historical subject matter –– Selma, Harriet, 13th –– for which female African-American directors are most often celebrated. Gina Prince-Bythewood: 'Films about black women are the hardest to get made' 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

The gallery is a modernist showstopper, though not without historical grounding; Madame du Barry, Louis XV’s mistress, commissioned the panels for a pleasure palace whose window was placed in roughly the same location. The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

These give the show welcome historical perspective, and an awareness of displacement as an intimately American phenomenon. Review | This D.C. exhibition should be seen by everyone concerned about the migrant crisis 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

This ingrained, muscular-level aspect of gesture and posture—in short, the way that one carries oneself—is where the historical moment is embedded inextricably into one’s character, even into one’s very being. Recreating a Feminist Revolutionary 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

By far the most commonly cited book in this respect is The Da Vinci Code, even though it is not a historical novel at all. The lying art of historical fiction 2010-08-06T15:44:00Z

Nevertheless, he said, two main themes were apparent: how “individual lives are shaped and determined by long historical processes,” and “the elusive nature of truth.” U.S. Authors Dominate Booker Prize Nominees 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

Some say such sales can compromise collections, and others argue that museums, libraries and historical societies have to cull their collections periodically, particularly if there is pressure to pay their bills. Small Town, Big Word, Major Issue 2010-12-27T23:09:56Z

Before the show opened, the Guggenheim doubled the length of its run from three to six months, imbuing the season with an exhilarating sense of art historical justice. Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim: One Work, Many Layers to Love 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Throughout numerous public hearings, a blue-ribbon commission, months of historical research and legal battles, statues that are the target of Monumental Justice’s work in Charlottesville and elsewhere in Virginia remain standing. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

They had updated the look of the opera with costumes and sets partly inspired by anime, scrubbed the libretto of historical inaccuracies and recast much of the work as a video-game fantasy. Reimagining ‘Madame Butterfly,’ With Asian Creators at the Helm 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

But he makes no claims to historical fidelity. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

“As is the case with most movies based on historical events, Spotlight contains fictionalised dialogue that was attributed to Mr Dunn for dramatic effect,” the statement said. Spotlight producers admit dialogue of Boston school worker was 'fictionalised' 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Yeah, so he’s writing one kind of historical novel. “Writing about sex may have led me to writing about religion”: Tom Perrotta on theocracies, “The Leftovers” and why “The Scarlet Letter” is a coming-out story 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Every Monday, mother and daughter would create elaborately illustrated letters and fact sheets for Ronald, coloring pictures of plants and birds and historical figures. ‘I’m really just trying to get to know my granddaughter again’ 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Under the plan, which was approved this week by the boards of both organizations, the library — the nation’s fifth largest — will become the parent institute of the historical society. Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Historical Society to Merge 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

But the monologues and skits are not just entertainment; they’re a historical record of the president’s daily misadventures. LOLs in Hell: The 10 best late-night Trump slams 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

It’s a vision oddly terrifying and ethereal, and another demonstration of this author’s extraordinary range, flowing gracefully from historical fiction to contemporary realism to science fiction. Review | As catastrophic waters rise in Thailand, a writer examines the past and imagines the future 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

On each, a fine choir provides a musical portrait of a historical Christmas; heard together, they provide an education that ranges through Europe and across the centuries. A Classical Christmas, Across the Centuries 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

How is this Lord Byron different from the historical Lord Byron? Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Set in ancient Rome, this historical novel casts Cicero, best known for his oratorical contributions, in a different light, exploring his ascent to what we would now call a career politician. These books lead to Rome 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The artist Wendy Red Star annotates historical photos of Crow diplomats, restoring significance to feathers and hair bows that contemporaneous white Americans belittled and misunderstood. If These Beautiful Ornaments Could Speak 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Counterfactualism of this kind has never found much favor in the historical profession. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

A historical novel that intertwines the story of George Armstrong Custer with those of his wife, Libbie, and Anne Cummins, a teenage settler captured by the Cheyenne. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Ruta Sepetys’s latest historical Y.A. novel, “I Must Betray You,” follows the life of a teenager who is blackmailed to become an informer for a repressive Communist regime. ‘Vladimir,’ a Debut That Celebrates Transgression — Up to a Point 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Rather than detail the complexities of these historical examples, or argue for their validity, the exhibition skims the surface. Better Living Through Music, Art and Polyamory 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Forsythe, who drew on historical documents, brilliantly uses details that are subtle but telling to convey the chaos and horror of the event. Review | Gun violence, loss, grief and love: Three poets grapple with emotional turmoil 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

I really like the mix of very historical and contemporary. In a Bronx Home, Look Up to See a Mythical Creature 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Among them were works about historical figures like the poet Lord Byron and adaptations of stories like Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Playwright Romulus Linney dies at 80 2011-01-16T15:50:08Z

It is unlikely that Cannadine intends to promote a political agenda – he devotes more attention to criticising other historical approaches than to developing his own. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z

Mr. Ruby’s objects are both; they hint at the historical forms and functionality of ceramics but refuse to satisfy their requirements. Sterling Ruby Pipes Down, a Bit 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

"Empire of Silver": This historical drama from China about a banking family's gradual loss of control was directed by Christine Yao. Weekend Preview: Clam Lights, street caroling 2011-11-30T21:35:08Z

Last year, a French tourist was charged with “aggravated damage to a building of historical and artistic interest” after carving “Sabrina 2017” into a piece of the Colosseum, The Telegraph reported. Tourist at Roman Colosseum caught stealing brick during guided tour 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

“It’s an incredibly diverse human practice that has much deeper historical roots than people expect,” Ms. Friedman said. Tattoo History, Antique Typewriters and Letting Go at the Toledo Museum 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“There isn’t a great deal of historical Christianity or explicit theological content in their worship,” said R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Tattoos, Bieber, Black Lives Matter and Jesus 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

Set in a historical building from the 1400s, this small restaurant serves local seafood and meats. Going to great lengths: Cycling Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groats 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

I think this is a good historical moment that the public deserves to see. A Word With: Irving Azoff, a Hard-Charging Artists’ Manager 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The lyrics, meanwhile, are packed with philosophical musings and historical nuggets. With ‘Divers,’ Joanna Newsom Is Clinging to Her Every Word 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

In the musical — based on Victor Hugo’s historical novel of the same title — sad to say, the revolt eventually is put down. Perspective | The Hong Kong protesters have found an anthem in this song from ‘Les Miz’ 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

These books introduced me to a new genre : sci-fi plus historical facts. TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow 2013-06-14T08:00:00Z

Mr. Martin said Coldplay included the section “because of the historical significance” of it and because the song is “about ‘I’m lost, but now I’m found.’ Coldplay Feature Barack Obama's 'Amazing Grace' on New Song 'Kaleidoscope' 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Aren’t they aware of the historical significance of what they have just witnessed? Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z

This season, the Martha Graham Dance Company is highlighting historical and contemporary ideas of femininity in Graham’s work. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The historical arrangements, known as “répétiteurs,” were remarkable for how they conveyed both melody and rhythmic drive. Dance Review: ‘Petipa Exotique,’ Part of Works & Process at the Guggenheim 2014-02-24T22:43:59Z

This weekend’s reopening of the Oakland Museum of California, dedicated to exploring the state’s historical, artistic and natural heritage, will be another major step in the city’s cultural renaissance. Arts: In Oakland, Museum Reopens and Arts Spur Growth 2010-05-02T04:56:00Z

Neiman writes about a number of historical factors, but the most important, in her opinion, was “civil engagement” by the German public, beginning in the nineteen-sixties. What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

But for all this historical fidelity, Carroll's writing is also thoroughly modern and devotional. 'Christ Actually' argues for belief through imitation 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Inevitably, there is something a little uncertain about it sometimes, but the principals, Del Walker and Anne Gooding, are winningly real, there is freshness and life and as a historical record it's pure gold. Film review: Bronco Bullfrog 2010-06-10T21:47:00Z

It has branched into many works and lineages — not just in literature but also in sociological and historical writing, painting, architecture and culture in general. Read Your Way Through Lima 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

The security state and America’s intelligence apparatus loom large in this week’s book recommendations, with two historical considerations of the C.I.A. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Performances, sometimes two or three a day, will be accompanied by historical film footage. Our Critics Pick the Dance Moves (and Objects) to See This Fall 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

With all this effort to keep his historical artifact from feeling too much like one, Ropac really uses the house. | In Salzburg, an Astonishing Contemporary Art Collection in a 17th-Century Austrian Manor 2013-12-03T16:21:49Z

Perhaps an 80-year history of France, told through the eyes of dozens of American visitors, can only be told with such a blurred historical detail. David McCullough's 'The Greater Journey': How France nurtured the American experiment 2011-05-18T23:11:59Z

Starvation and subtlety may be an unlikely pairing, but Feng’s historical horror show would actually be more moving if it were less openly emotional. ‘Back to 1942’: a grim tale of famine, war in China | Movie review 2012-12-06T22:02:31Z

This epic Czech opera, a historical drama, brought enormous success to Dvorak at its 1882 premiere in Prague. Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

He did, however, write this soulful historical recounting of the women’s voting movement with Thomas Yohe. 5 ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ Songs From Bob Dorough We’ll Never Forget 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

The unusual thing is that Mantel picked the historical novel to do better with. For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

Well, Mr. Pearce did a lot of research, too, at least as much as the historical record allowed. ‘Will’ on TNT: A Punk-Rock Shakespeare, Striving and Stage-Diving in the Big City 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

While contemporary artists discuss their relationships with historical works in the Frieze Masters talks, the video footage is taken from an interview inside an auditorium at the fair in London’s Regent Park. Artists on Art: A New Web Series From the Met 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

It seems to want to be indistinct, to lie beyond trackable sentiment or emotion or even clear historical markers. Review: Tortoise Revisits Its Elusive Identity on ‘The Catastrophist’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Professor Greenberg wrote 10 books and more than 200 articles that often combined his analysis of Hebrew with his expertise in Assyriology, the linguistic, archaeological and historical study of ancient Mesopotamia. Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z

Asked whether his intensive preparation had relieved his anxiety about playing a historical figure, he frowned. For Hugh Grant, a Smaller Screen Brings a More Complex Role 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Everyone in Washington thinks their experiences and insights are interesting and should be part of the historical record — which explains why there are so many memoirs and why so many are so bad. Linda Tripp wanted to make history. Instead, it nearly destroyed her. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

But “it took decades until the democratic movement gained importance through revised historical views,” Kim said. How Do You Stage a Global Art Show Now? In South Korea, Curators Press On. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Their connection to the material seemed to bypass the real-life historical context of Facebook's creation and instead centered on the tragic universality of the shattered friendship at its center. "Social Network" passes first test with Oscar voters 2010-10-04T02:28:00Z

“Cross That River” ends up presenting a historical fiction without engaging with the full context of that history. Review: A Runaway Slave Rides West in ‘Cross That River’ 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Behind the story of “Giselle” lie the still dismaying, well-attested historical accounts of dance mania that caused deaths in the Rhineland in the late medieval and early Renaissance eras. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z

The piece begins with a historical look at the African-American struggle, including a depiction of lynchings, and then moves into full-on, high-energy hip-hop. Ailey troupe marks 60 years by looking back at its founder 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The personal gave way to the historical in some novels that dealt on an epic level with the tortuous history of Latin America. An Appraisal: The Work of Gabriel García Márquez 2014-04-18T01:44:10Z

We round things out with a historical novel grounded in Cherokee culture and a fun oral history, entirely invented, of a fictional 1970s rock band. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

So he infused his creations with cultural and historical references, ranging from the ancient world to the stylized pleating of Japanese kimonos. Luxurious Quality, More Than a Name 2012-11-21T15:30:24Z

This is an art historical survey of an artistic genre.” An Examination of the Nude Figure in Turkish Art at the Pera Museum 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

But both of these narratives fall into the category of analyzing Mandela not as the person he was, but through the lens of the mythology surrounding him — operating in the symbolic rather than historical realm. Nelson Mandela vs. his hagiography 2013-12-21T16:30:00Z

In both of these historical periods of turmoil, and in Martin's series of novels, human control over prophecy is as difficult as their control over dragons. An introduction to the stories and British history that inspired the beasts of "House of the Dragon" 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

The historical society organized community listening sessions for the interviews and developed a free educational curriculum for schools. A Sound-and-Art Show Fills a Void for Muslims in Brooklyn 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

But “The Poison Squad” suffers from a lack of historical context. The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Her goal is to link recent global movements for racial justice and historical reckoning with the longer-term question of how people understand, distort, correct and build on the “whole wide world of the past.” The Controversy Over Statues and How We Commemorate the Past 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

In proclaiming “the emancipation of the dissonance” in a 1926 essay, Arnold Schoenberg meant to justify in historical terms his move from functional harmony toward free atonality and, ultimately, a new 12-tone system of composition. Music Review: Re:sonance at the Austrian Cultural Forum - Review 2012-01-13T23:37:14Z

Back in our timeline, “For All Mankind” has revealed itself as one of the most normcore-radical shows on TV, a historical thought experiment in dad-show clothing. In ‘For All Mankind,’ the Future Is in the Past 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

A kamikaze impulse, heedless of historical or personal precedent, seems to persist among everyone who commands a degree of power in the film industry. Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate: the last of the great Hollywood stinkers? 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z

Rather, it’s a hybrid, combining learned historical analysis with in-depth reporting and political commentary. A History of Latin America Embodied in ‘Silver, Sword, and Stone’ 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

“But how much of this phenomenon of African-American communities finding a place for themselves in these sour lands, these undesirable properties, is lost to historical memory?” Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

"If you look at the whole story, historical, textual, archaeological, they all seem to point at these two nails being involved in a crucifixion," said the director. Jesus crucifixion nails discovered, claims film-maker 2011-04-12T09:59:38Z

But Mr. Elderfield approached his subject as if on an art historical treasure hunt. De Kooning Retrospective Is to Open at MoMA 2011-09-13T17:57:51Z

This documentary details that systemic suppression through archival footage and historical insight. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Late Late Show’ Special and ‘Pass Over’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

I am neither white nor black, but through her theories, I was able to understand that my body contained historical multitudes and any analysis without such a measured consideration was limited and deeply flawed. In Praise of bell hooks 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

It mined the historical legacies of oppression, both at home and abroad, while also celebrating the joy in the African American cultural experience and the beauty of the Black visage and form. Valerie Maynard, Artist Who Celebrated Black Identity, Dies at 85 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

Washburn’s ingenious script is profound and at times deadly serious in tracing the way an iconic pop culture narrative evolves to suit the needs of different historical eras. The 99-Seat Beat: An Actors' Gang 'Carnival,' a riff on 'Heart of Darkness' and more 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

But Meryl Streep, the three-time Oscar-winner and star of new historical drama Suffragette, sidestepped the question when asked by a journalist whether she considers herself a feminist. Meryl Streep on feminist question: 'I'm a humanist' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Bouveresse, who, earlier this year, curated a historical show of women in the seventies who photographed other women for the Arles photo festival, in which Heyman’s work was included, encountered “Growing Up Female” by chance. Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

At this historical moment, this is meant to defend Islam against anticipated accusations. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z

Marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet military victory over the Nazis, this celebratory evening of music and talk is likely to attract a different crowd from your average Battle of Britain historical happening. This week's new events 2013-02-02T06:00:21Z

Independence National Historical Park is one of several with its own mobile app, featuring maps, self-guided tours and historical facts about the Liberty Bell and the park’s other famous attractions. National Parks Gear Up for Summer Rush 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Jackson’s impulse is always to expand the historical archive through conversations. Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

The turbulence that troubles the plane, then, doubles as the turbulent historical epoch we are all living through. A Poet Who Looks at the Stuff of Daily Life and Sees Looming Apocalypse 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Through historical texts, we hear attacks on Borromini’s reputation and his desperate response to them. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z

The historical shows he has mounted here and elsewhere in his realm, along with his Richard Serra shows, may form whatever place he has in art history. Last Chance: Warhol, Basquiat and Other History Lessons 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Olivia Williams is a historical interpreter at McLeod Plantation, whose tours focus on the quarters where enslaved people lived rather than the grand home that belonged to the white family. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z

The trickiest challenge is presented by the movie’s commercial imperatives and, by extension, the entire historical thrust of Hollywood with its demand for heroes and happy endings. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

His father worked on Broadway as a set designer and his mother appeared in Dietrich's 1934 historical drama The Scarlet Empress, playing Catherine the Great as a child. J Michael Riva, veteran production designer, dies aged 63 2012-06-08T15:57:01Z

One way to think about this is with a concept developed by the historical sociologist Charles Tilly: “repertoires of contention.” Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z

Several were made up of alternating narratives set in the present day and then in some distant historical period. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

Readers on the lookout for Black or disabled characters in historical romance will not want to miss this. Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

There was plenty here to have persuaded Cheever that his drinking had no historical, religious or literary endorsement. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z

“It was the first time that I saw a Black man from that time traveling by bike,” he said, referring to the historical photos of the soldiers on their bicycles. Black Soldiers Cycled 1,900 Miles Across the U.S. So He Did, Too. 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

But whereas museums locate the importance of pictures in their artistic value or their historical lineage, Instagram ascribes value through a simpler, tougher logic: the tyranny of likes. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Absolutely none of this historical ephemera is required to appreciate the rutabaga as a food. What Rutabaga Does Better Than Anyone Else 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

The movie is punctuated with quotes by black historical figures — Martin Luther King Jr.’s observation that “a riot is the language of the unheard” is particularly resonant. Review: Anatomy of Ferguson, From a Shooting to Activism 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

For example, one program will look at the "jump the shark" episode from "Happy Days" to explain its historical significance.  CBS, Weigel Broadcasting team up to create vintage TV channel 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Henry V Benefit reading of Shakespeare's historical drama features local veterans. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 1-8: 'Prairie-Oke!' and more 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

"I know Ken was horrified to have a Confederate ancestor, and I go, 'Aw, man, it's OK,'" said Gates, whose 2013 historical series "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" recently won an Emmy. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most haunting historical work in the show is Arshile Gorky’s portrait of himself and his mother, on loan from the National Gallery of Art. Review | This D.C. exhibition should be seen by everyone concerned about the migrant crisis 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

His portrayal of the Kabbalists evoked a realm of mystics who succeeded in being absolutely subversive of Jewish tradition while somehow remaining within its historical folds. A Guide to Religious Anarchy: Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The public's taste for Walpole's overstuffed historical romances waned rapidly after the second world war. Rogue Herries – review 2013-03-27T18:19:40Z

Mad Men Unbuttoned : Los Angeles writer Natasha Vargas-Cooper provides historical context for each "Mad Men" episode in this blog, which recently inspired a book . 'Mad Men' finale airs Sunday: A guide to our favorite blogs 2010-10-15T21:01:00Z

As a result, perhaps, he became a highly intuitive writer, bound less by labels — political writer, historical writer, Jewish writer — than simultaneously inside and outside these categories all at once. Remembering E.L. Doctorow, great American mythologist 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Despite her historical subjects and meticulous style, Andreozzi is a something of a modernist. Review | In the galleries: ‘Focus Group’ takes a playful approach to life and death 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Still, Richardson's tendency to color those historical judgments is distracting but not fatal, and the story she relates is tragic and timely. 'To Make Men Free' is a timely tale of the ever-changing GOP 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

But his clothes are steeped in European influences, drawn from historical sources such as August Sander's early 20th-century photographs of anonymous workers. Yohji Yamamoto: the people's designer who cuts loose from the catwalk 2011-03-14T17:44:24Z

In “The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the historical mystery author Matthew Pearl makes his nonfiction debut with a factual thriller about the kidnapping of the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone’s daughter Jemima in 1776. What the Kidnapping of Daniel Boone’s Daughter Tells Us About Life on the Frontier 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

I borrowed old historical backdrops from the museum, and period costumes from a TV wardrobe department. Shadi Ghadirian's best photograph – Iranian tradition meets the CD player 2013-02-13T18:00:01Z

Jonaitis and Glass do a thorough job of sketching the historical backdrop to all this. Book review: History of totem pole is a story of near-death and rebirth of an art form 2010-05-26T23:20:00Z

You’ll find all of this in a traveling career retrospective that also expands beyond the historical moment to which this artist is usually confined. Museum & Gallery Listings for Aug. 29-Sept. 4 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

With its elegiac sweep and opportunities for high drama — not squandered by either dancer — the Tudor excerpt served as a historical and stylistic anchor, before the evening moved into less traditional territory. Review: Osipova Stretches, and Reconnects With Hallberg 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The patron delivers pep talks and canned historical morsels. Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

The move by Anne Frank Fonds, the Swiss foundation that owns the copyright to the work, drew criticism over the historical question of who authored the book. Anne Frank's Diary Now Has a Co-Author to Extend Copyright 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

This presentation of news as entertainment continued under Tussaud's sons and grandsons, who placed famous figures in dramatic historical dioramas. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z

I like historical fiction, two favorites being “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” by David Mitchell, and “Wolf Hall,” by Hilary Mantel. Books New and Old for the Would-Be Time Traveler 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Such tales as this, of historical romance and underdog rebellion, have been done so often that it would be easy to merely replicate works of the past. ‘Spin Me Round,’ ‘Small Town Crime’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

The experts’ appreciation of the photographs’ historical importance, and their concern for their condition, made an impression. Time brings more treasures to the Holocaust Museum 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Johnson said the hope was that the city would also become owner of the historical society’s building, which underwent a major renovation in 2010, by retiring its $1.9 million mortgage debt. Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Historical Society to Merge 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The project is tightly under wrap, though his editor, Mr. Jackson, described it as “historical” with “elements of the fantastical” and Mr. Coates said it deals with race. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

And she recently signed on to star for Martin Scorsese in his historical drama "The Invention of Hugo Cabret." Teen actress flexes muscles in "Kick-Ass" 2010-04-20T00:22:00Z

Thomas Mallon’s latest historical novel, “Finale,” picks up effortlessly from his last. Review: ‘Finale’ by Thomas Mallon Moves Past ‘Watergate’ and Into the Reagan Era 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The show lets you walk right into the art galleries of interwar Rome, Milan and Turin, unmediated by later judgments of quality or historical significance. A New Italy, Imagined by Artists and Demagogues 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Another local attempt at historical drama on the small screen. A Place to Call Home is Australian television to be proud of 2013-07-18T02:32:00Z

I’ve been reading for research about Victorian America, all while imagining the next historical novel I want to write. Ottessa Moshfegh: By the Book 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

He provides useful historical and biographical context, makes insightful comparisons and speculates keenly on feelings and psychology. Review | One rivalry changed the landscape in English art 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

New York audiences encountered the crest in a stark gallery, without historical context, in the same way as Cubist or Futurist sculptures. African Masterpieces With the Grace of Kings 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

For it is not that easy to state the value of public plaques, memorials or art, so strangely do they combine social and historical meaning, beauty of form and brute material substance. Stolen memorials: melted down means lost for ever 2012-06-10T17:10:01Z

He later apologized for his comments, saying in a statement: “By excusing historical racism, I defended it.” New hosts for ‘The Bachelorette’ after racial controversy 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Estimated room rates are based on historical and predictive booking data, Mr. Shank said, as well as on input from the company’s marketing and data team. In Transit Blog: HotelTonight Goes Beyond the Last Minute 2014-04-15T18:48:11Z

"There’s a historical system that has been used to deny black women the status of true womanhood," Ronisha Browdy, an English professor at North Carolina State University, told the Atlantic. Why Gabrielle Union and Michelle Obama opening up about miscarriage and infertility matters 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

For director Ridley Scott, it started a run of enervating historical action-dramas that included Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood and Exodus: Gods and Kings, none of which had the same propulsive kick. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

SAT One-hour guided walking historical tour of historically haunted locations and restaurants, famous ghosts and local stories of Seattle legends Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee, Kurt Cobain; secret prohibition history, 5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

In “Mexican American Baseball in East Los Angeles,” chapters are framed with brief historical passages explaining relevant local and national events from 1917 to 2016. Rescued from history: The baseball teams of East Los Angeles 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The center described those new figures as “recent historical highs.” More Women Were Protagonists in 2016 Movies 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

“As a genre, books by active politicians are typically not very edifying. … Schiff’s is better than most, offering valuable contributions to the historical record.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

There is something distinctly French in this marriage between the grandly historical and the audaciously modern. Digital love: Manuelle Gautrand and the Ga?t? Lyrique 2011-03-20T21:31:01Z

Despite its subtitle, “Asperger’s Children” is less about “the origins of autism” than it is a historical case study of complicity in the Third Reich. Once Viewed as a Savior of Children, Hans Asperger Is Now Called a Nazi Collaborator 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Each entry includes a bit of historical information, photographs and statistics like the number of screens and seats; architectural context is provided by Google Maps’ integrated street view. Movie Theaters Documented on Cinema Treasures Site 2011-08-27T03:43:02Z

A few days later, Joseph A. Califano Jr., a former top domestic aide to Johnson, issued another salvo, in The Washington Post, accusing the filmmakers of deliberately ignoring the historical record. Depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in 'Selma’ Raises Hackles 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

What appears to be a growing disconnect between present and past is a concern of those invested in historical art. Largely Unseen $600 Million Collection Will Join Museum in Italy 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Gerard and Kelly do not treat the house as the historical monument dryly described on the bronze plaque at the gate, built for a nuclear family, but as a trampoline for an alternative household. What Josephine Baker and a Maharajah Teach Us About Design 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

The supercut is a stunning historical relic that memorializes former child stars who have since faded into relative obscurity or at least ended up in Hallmark movies. How 9/11 helped define this generation’s new brand of patriotism 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

SAT Presentation and slide show on historical local fire lookouts and the people who staffed them, doors open at noon, presentation at 1 and 4 p.m.Saturday, Community calendar 2011-09-28T21:16:04Z

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

It's difficult to accept that the moments that David and Liza Kurtz lived "were not yet historical." 'Three Minutes in Poland' offers glimpse of world lost to Holocaust 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

I was reminded of Edward St. Aubyn’s comment, “That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.” Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

The historical Sachs, like Wagner, was a passionate lover of books and stories. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z

To trace a coherent historical path, audio guides were useless; you needed GPS. Art Review: New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800, at the Met 2013-05-23T22:47:11Z

Still, it has its own claim to historical import: by all accounts, it was the most violent gig in British history. Misunderstood or hateful? Oi!'s rise and fall 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z

But no matter the fortunes of black people anywhere in the world, the need for accurate historical records and analysis to document their experiences will not change, he said. Schomburg Center?s Director, Howard Dodson, to Retire 2010-04-19T04:51:00Z

The historical afterword to this jaunty portrait is a jarring reminder that larger-than-life characters tend to fare less well in real life than on the page – especially when they're women. Astray by Emma Donoghue – review 2012-11-09T22:54:01Z

Karen Blumenthal, a former Wall Street Journal reporter , tells the story of this fast-firing weapon through a compelling series of historical figures and events. Best young adult and children’s books for July 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

“The historical division between Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine is so recent, you can’t really draw a line between the cuisines,” she said. In Israel, a New Passion for Palestinian Cuisine 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Writing “The Plague” in the form of a historical “chronicle” was a hopeful gesture, implying human continuity, a vessel to carry the memory of war as an inoculation against future armed conflicts. Camus’s Inoculation Against Hate 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

In it, Koh’s playing — agitated extended technique — accompanies historical images of lynchings and racist cartoons. Two Musicians of Color Are Creating Their Own Space 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

It was another great way to crowdsource historical work, she says. The National Archives has billions of handwritten documents. With cursive skills declining, how will we read them? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

And with the Rondinone project, the museum is now moving past exhibiting photographs, documentation and artifacts from historical land-art pieces and decisively entering the business of ushering new pieces into the world. Building an Artist’s ‘Magic Mountains’ to Draw Visitors to the Desert 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

In modern day, the property doesn’t hide from its past and operates historical tours and educational programs regarding colonial rule and the enslavement of Black people from the African diaspora. Plantation where Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively married responds after actor expressed regret 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

After “Chariots,” Mr. Welland proposed another historical film, this one titled “Rocket,” about the engineers George and Robert Stephenson, the English father and son who developed rail travel in the 19th century. Colin Welland Dies at 81; Wrote ‘Chariots of Fire’ 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

In other moments, the show fully embraces historical fantasy in neglecting to discuss race at all. 5 ways to fix "Bridgerton" next season to transform this guilty pleasure into guilt-free escapism 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

It’s the sort of historical show that can take decades to pull together. Museum & Gallery Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

As a historical survey, “Bad Faith” is adequate, at times more. Review: ‘Bad Faith,’ a Dr. Paul A. Offit Book on Religion and Modern Medicine 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

From a relatively safe historical distance, it’s possible to appreciate him as an almost literary character, a volatile and fascinating mixture of resentment, intelligence, paranoia and guile, with a disarming sentimental streak. Review: ‘Watergate’ Shocks Anew With Its True Tale of Political Scandal 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The garment can hide weaponry while it cloaks Mr. Walker, whom the costumers say stands at almost 6 foot 4, a fair match for the historical Lincoln, who may have been a smidgeon taller. Aside From the Vampires, Lincoln Film Seeks Accuracy 2011-05-09T12:00:00Z

Mr. Pribyl also avoided standard historical footage of events like Nazi parades. ?Forgotten Transports? of Czech Jews at Shoah Festival 2010-03-26T22:02:00Z

This review is, however, spot-on about the show's inner conflict of what world it wants to be in - a soaring and sometimes brutally somber historical epic, or a bombastic and romantic Disney-esque classic? Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

In honor of National Peanut Butter Day, Fox News Digital takes a look at the groundnut through a historical lens. Peanut butter soup and peanut loaf were WWI staples: Here's why 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Paver's children's novels are based on historical, rather than fantasy, worlds. Michelle Paver heads for ancient Greece 2012-08-26T08:20:09Z

Another much-loved repeat sketch is Stupid Deaths, which sees a comical grim reaper processing recently departed historical characters at the "Death Check-In" counter and then laughing mercilessly at the farcical manner in which they died. How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z

“I feel like I finally have a therapist,” he laughs at the end of a 30-minute call about his 2016 historical adventure series Marco Polo. ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it’: how it feels to make a TV flop 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

The director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, is best known for Downfall, which recounts the last days of a rather different historical figure: Adolf Hitler. Princesses for grownups: Diana and Grace of Monaco 2013-07-18T15:18:20Z

Other examples of historical shaming of this sort included men and women alike. Jeb’s medieval politics of shame: Upholding a long tradition of keeping women and girls in line 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The Basque Museum and Cultural Center has a small but impressive historical exhibition and offers classes in Euskara, the imposing stew of consonants that makes up the Basque language. Cultured Traveler: Herding Sheep in Basque Country (Idaho) 2012-08-24T19:19:51Z

With his sixth book, “Music Is History,” Questlove aims to place music in its historical context. Review | Questlove puts his obsessive music expertise on full display 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Some artifacts are of profound historical importance, like Thomas Jefferson’s handwritten manuscript of “The Declaration of Independence.” A Library?s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X 2011-05-17T12:00:00Z

There is something about religion that is shared across these historical boundaries. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

With the all-access passport granted by historical fiction, she even alights daringly, if perhaps a little superfluously, in the circle of Jackson Pollock, right before the artist died while driving drunk with his mistress. In ‘Horse,’ Geraldine Brooks Sets a Consideration of Race at the Track 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Andrew Jackson To me what’s fascinating about Andrew Jackson is that he’s the only historical figure I can think of that’s gone through such a huge historic reappraisal in my lifetime. Alex Timbers and Les Freres Corbusier Do History as Mash-Up 2010-04-04T02:53:00Z

Grounding the show are historical references that keep the gay-trans-queer links always in sight. When to Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

This is partly because the country is a historical fusion of small states and cities that were once run by princes and nobles, all determined to prove their cultural prowess. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Hypatia, who is based on a historical figure, pursues the mysteries of the cosmos with dogged dialectical skill and is regarded throughout the city with admiration and awe. | 'Agora': Rachel Weisz in a Tale of Ancient Egypt 2010-05-27T22:24:00Z

Your first role on the historical stage is the prince in Sleeping Beauty. ArtsBeat Blog: Hallberg Discusses Debut as Bolshoi Principal Dancer 2011-11-09T15:59:22Z

Lucrezia Borgia's story appealed to Figgis both because of the drama of Donizetti's version, and the facts of the historical Lucrezia. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z

The historical, the personal and political are all randomized within parameters that lend eerie verisimilitude to these alternate histories. Video Game Review: Crusader Kings II by Paradox Interactive 2012-03-30T22:47:44Z

"The film has historical roots with a modern interpretation, much like my instrument." From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

The show is so interesting to look at and so fresh with historical news as to override reservations. Art Review: ‘African Presence in Renaissance Europe,’ at Walters Museum 2012-11-08T20:30:57Z

Many people now think of Mantel as a historical novelist, which she is. Why Hilary Mantel deserves another prize 2013-03-08T09:52:28Z

My colleague Dennis Overbye recently enumerated some of the film’s historical and scientific lapses in The New York Times, but those are not really my concern. In ‘The Theory of Everything,’ Stephen Hawking’s Home Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Masello expertly blends contemporary thrills with a historical spin on the life of Cellini. `Medusa Amulet' is unconventional thriller 2011-04-27T20:32:20Z

The Seattle writer delivers the sequel to her historical novels "The Twentieth Wife" and "The Feast of Roses," set in the 17th-century Mughal Empire. Local books: Baseball, recipes ... and more baseball 2010-03-22T20:25:00Z

Nicholson & Galloway, an exterior restoration contractor experienced with historical domes, repaired cracks in tiles, patched concrete, then layered on new protective materials: a hand-troweled vapor barrier, spray foam insulation, stainless-steel framing, plywood sheathing. Cathedral of St. John Finally Solves a 100-Year-Old Problem 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

It’s complicated as the modern characters overlap with some of the historical figures they sing about. Review | Total witch hunt! ‘The Crucible’ gets a blazing revival at Olney 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kassinger embroiders much of her historical information with colorful sociological detail. Books of The Times: Ruth Kassinger?s ?Paradise Under Glass? 2010-05-16T21:37:00Z

From its outset the producers establish the war as a historical event marked by universal loss, with no clear winners. Ten years in the making, "The Vietnam War" is broad and stunning 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

In almost 20 novels, including “The Pilot’s Wife,” “Fortune’s Rocks ” and “The Weight of Water,” Shreve consistently creates complex characters and plots, often drawn from the historical record or obscure headlines. ‘The Stars Are Fire,’ by Anita Shreve, ignites history 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Despite the unfamiliar Soviet-bloc setting and the distant historical epoch, these are highly accessible human stories with an enormous emotional range, from dark comedy to reckless romance to unbearable tragedy. “Dekalog”: The legendary Communist-era Polish miniseries that shaped the TV we watch today 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

She referred to historical maps of Manhattan that showed where all the waterways, wetlands and hills existed, and discovered a river underneath the townhouse. 7 mistakes homeowners make when renovating older properties 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

And within each entry, the senses are organized in a sort of family tree, so you can often tie in changes in language to historical events or the life in the past. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z

Where Donoghue's historical novels kindle imaginative worlds from the embers of forgotten lives, these are like sparks that flare and go out: poignant, but sometimes perfunctory. Astray by Emma Donoghue – review 2012-11-09T22:54:01Z

The poems from “Talking Dirty” are chatty, profane and allusive, describing a teeming, seething, exuberantly chaotic world populated by gods, historical figures and animals. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

A literary critic once said that a family is but an increment of historical time. Fashion Review: The Stage Is Big, and Lagerfeld Fills It 2010-10-05T22:56:00Z

In recent years, he hosted U.S. cable TV series, including the A&E Network's long-running historical series, "Biography." "Mission: Impossible" star Peter Graves dies in L.A. 2010-03-15T14:16:00Z

Sponsored by the Bronx River Alliance, the festival will offer canoeing, bicycle loans, field games, nature walks, a historical tour, zumba and capoeira, and educational activities including water testing and eel monitoring. Spare Times for Children for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Ferry provides some heartfelt prefatory remarks on meter and the aims of the translation, but there is no formal introduction about the poem’s historical setting or literary tradition, no glossary or list of names. David Ferry Won the National Book Award in His 80s. In His 90s, He Has Translated Virgil. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Its rediscovery is a major art historical event. LACMA purchases long-lost masterpiece, once kept under a couch 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

The historical district, which includes eight blocks along Bullard Street, calls for a slow walk. New Mexico’s Silver City — just the ticket for a 25th wedding anniversary 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“He’s a very interesting historical person,” Armitage said in a precocious manner, adding that the character in the musical is “awesome, cool and smart. And he’s a rapper!” 'Hamilton' opening night in Hollywood: Stars, song and some tears 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The board asked that the name of the film be changed to “Padmavat”, to reflect that the source material was an epic poem of the same name and not from actual historical events, Joshi said. India's censors clear Bollywood movie, objectors say protests to conti 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

In “What Really Happened?,” the documentary filmmaker Andrew Jenks goes on what he calls a “rogue investigation” aimed at “unraveling newfound narratives” on pop historical moments. You Know Your History? These Podcasts Aren’t So Sure 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Chelcee Johns, a senior editor at Ballantine who acquired “The Scent of Burnt Flowers,” said that she responded to it as both a historical novel and a human story. Blitz Bazawule Is Building Bridges Between Worlds 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

McWhirter's insistence on attaching names — to the dead and, when possible, to those responsible for the violence — provides the book with a cumulative power and a sense of historical accountability. 'Red Summer': 1919, a year of epic violence against America's black citizens 2011-07-13T22:02:04Z

It’s a strange document—one of those moments during which historical eras seem to melt together like the tracks on a warped record, as if Katie Couric were interviewing Mahatma Gandhi. The Pill’s Difficult Birth 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The same article also promises that governments will safeguard the country's "historical and artistic heritage". Italy arts cut protests reach crescendo with riots at Milan's La Scala 2010-12-07T20:36:00Z

In the catalog Mr. Gioni writes that the show was not conceived as “a classic historical survey” but as a “cabinet of curiosities.” Art Review: ‘Ghosts in the Machines’ at the New Museum 2012-07-19T21:45:40Z

He writes historical pieces and reminiscences about the old days of the scene for the music websites Noisey and No Echo. ABC No Rio Fondly Recalls the Saturdays of Its Gritty Youth 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

It might be niche, but it’s an example of how alternate history can deal with powerful historical themes. Review | Ever wonder what might have been? Here are some scenarios, courtesy of science fiction 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

It coincides with a year of intense debate over what it means to be black in America, sparked by historical and current events. Black American history gets 500-year rewind in PBS series 2013-10-21T21:02:17Z

The National Gallery of Art agreed to curate galleries in the Flagg Building, ensuring that the historical space remains a place for important art exhibitions. Art from the Corcoran reestablishes its place in D.C. with exhibition at AU 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The numbering signifies that this new historical epic is a shift, as this Ubisoft series about the ancestral lives of a man named Desmond Miles leaps to its third era. Video Games: Little Inferno; Hitman; Assassin’s Creed III; Persona 4 Golden; Angry Birds Star Wars; My Little Pony 2012-12-05T05:04:45Z

Scott Cave, who lives in the Appalachian Mountains region of Virginia with his wife and infant, is a historical researcher and stay-at-home father. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

In fairness, that company statement acknowledges this with its conclusion that “the Company’s historical policies, practices and structures have not reflected a high institutional priority on preventing harassment and retaliation.” Eliza Dushku's scathing indictment of "Bull" sexual harassment shows how deep CBS rot still goes 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mix and match, compare and contrast and throw around a lot of current art historical jargon with a few aesthetically fun concepts. A Masterful Debut, but Can It Rise to Greatness? 2010-05-12T12:30:00Z

Kuhns skillfully weaves in historical details about the times and the Shaker movement in "A Simple Murder." Eleanor Kuhns' 'A Simple Murder': A Shaker mystery 2012-05-23T20:18:11Z

“Fitzgerald,” Brown argues, “was able to write as powerfully as he did about historical change in America ­because he identified with it in such a personal way.” F. Scott Fitzgerald: Our nation’s most poetic interpreter 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

We could find no earlier reference to “pumpkin spice” in a search of historical newspapers. I used every pumpkin spice product I could find for a week. Now my armpits smell like nutmeg. 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The Chiayi museum’s handful of exhibition rooms shrink both time and space, using Asia’s historical commercial and cultural exchanges, themselves often inseparable, to weave a regional patchwork that is neither exhaustive, nor exhausting. A Taiwan Museum Featuring All of Asia 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

In the funky Bellavista neighborhood of Santiago, the capital of Chile, is a house that is as playful, quirky, colorful, political, historical and even lyrical as the great man who once lived in it. Pablo Neruda’s love nest in Santiago: Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The theme of this year’s fair is the use of historical reference, which appears in different ways in the art on view. T Magazine: Objects of Artistry at Armory Fair 2011-04-12T00:29:07Z

The upshot, of course, is that deepfakes may gradually destabilize the very idea of a historical "event." The slippery slope of using AI and deepfakes to bring history to life 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Her cooking traces historical connections forged by proximity, trade and the arrival of Haitians who doubled the city’s population in the early 19th century. In Majority-Black New Orleans, Chefs Are Rewriting ‘Whitewashed’ History 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

When fueled by enduring political or psychological currents like nationalism and racism, such fictional narratives become the justification for war and genocide and other historical crimes. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Right after the Black Lives Matter movement started, I knew I was witnessing a historical moment. How Prabal Gurung Plans to Fall in Love This Year 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

“It’s complicated” is how the Westerners must sum up such a political/historical moment. He Was a Snob About Musicals. Then He Tried Out to Play Hamilton. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

“I was just astounded that they recognized the historical significance of what they were doing and were so rigorous in documenting it,” he said. 'It's useful for viewers today': the film about a two-year voluntary isolation 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

It’s near the weathered boardwalks of Old Trail Town, a collection of historical cabins and artifacts, from arrowheads to barbed wire to furnishings. Yellowstone during the pandemic: Reliably magnificent 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

“It is good for the nerves, I think, to have some historical perspective,” he writes. A Smart, Playful Book About the Underappreciated Index 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Then he showed them articles explaining the historical significance of the event and the importance of the flames to ancient Persian traditions, and he won them over. Just blocks from the White House, Iranian Americans welcome a new year 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

A possibly stronger counterpoint to the "Queen Charlotte" disclaimer rests not in its insistence that we see its historical fiction but in its classification as a romance above all. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

In an oeuvre of 11 novels, three short-story collections and four plays, Mr. Yehoshua tackled a variety of narrative forms — from surrealist to historical — and delved into knotty or uncommon subjects. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

The World War I book also sparked debate in British historical circles about the author’s contention that the conflict was “unnecessary.” Sir John Keegan, Historian Who Put a Face on War, Dies at 78 2012-08-03T01:01:09Z

He built Juilliard’s first dormitory; added new programs in jazz studies and historical performance practice; and proved adept at fund-raising. The 10 Biggest Upheavals of Lincoln Center’s Tumultuous Year 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

There are enough examples, recent and historical, to dispel any skepticism that this is possible. Remake Everything—Particularly “The Princess Bride” 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Actors will create historical atmospheres in some small rooms at the site; one is slated to become a 1920s speakeasy. ArtsBeat: Young Entrepreneur to Turn Dance Shows at Hammerstein Ballroom Into Dreamlike Theatrical Events 2012-01-11T16:39:43Z

One of the nation’s best-known wetlands and a historical trail provide prime access to the region’s untamed southern living. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z

The historical moment is fraught as American Jews try to save relatives in an increasingly untenable Nazi Germany. A Sudden Tragedy Leads to Unsinkable Family Secrets 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

But it was Bernhardt's active participation in decisive historical events that did even more than her acting to seal her reputation. Stop treating actors with contempt 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

He also looks at genetics, because our genes provide a historical record, just as fossils do. Television Review: ‘Your Inner Fish’ Traces Human Evolutionary History on PBS 2014-04-08T20:05:33Z

"This is the England of Alexander McQueen, a place of eclectic historical and cultural references," the fashion house said in a release. Alexander McQueen sticks to British roots 2010-06-20T16:24:00Z

The words historical thesaurus may send children running to the hills, for fear they’re likely to be bored to death by some fellow with a monocle. Quiz: Can You Figure Out the Meaning of Centuries-Old Slang? 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

The mask-like artifice of the pilots in song, the histrionic flourishes of the historical masques, the melodramatic excesses of villains and heroes alike offer an extravagant thrill of overstoked emotion to a nearly unbearable intensity. The Virtues of Screening “Forbidden” Films 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The Smithsonian is an American treasure with its museums, the National Zoo, the tropical research station in Panama, astrophysical observatory and many other cultural, scientific and historical resources. The Smithsonian got its start thanks to a mysterious gift 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

“Her exploration in ‘Marrow’ is part of a larger history about her wrangling with questions around crisis and historical change,” Colbert said. Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

But this is not a tidy, feminized re-telling of the flow of art historical movements. SAM's 'Elles' frames female artists in a new way 2012-10-10T20:57:06Z

In Week 1211, inspired by, oh, I don’t know, we asked for disparaging tweets of celebrated historical or literary figures. Style Invitational Week 1215: A so-so contest (How so-so was it?) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

A family destination with hands-on maritime activities, boat rides and historical interpreters. On the trail of ‘Moby-Dick’ in three New England towns 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

“I’m talking about school segregation and police killings,” she said, adding that the scale of historical persecution was rarely acknowledged. The Roma Artist Sewing a New History for Her People 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

These stories capture the reality of migration in all of its historical, political, and human detail. Sunday Reading: The Journey 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

Fiction based on historical events — especially one as frequently retold as the Manson family murders — can easily slip into second-hand banality, a kind of nostalgia of horror. Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a gorgeous, disqueiting spin on Manson family dynamics 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Painted portraits were serious affairs — whether of state, commerce, historical record or private life, and whether for royalty, aristocrats and their hangers-on, or the bourgeoisie, who usually could afford only pastel. She Painted Marie Antoinette (and Escaped the Guillotine) 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Physics tells us that what we call time isn’t real but mere perception, leaving a contentious philosophical, psychological, physiological and historical conundrum. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

At its best, his novel not only exults in the historical synchronicities and proximities he has discovered but catches the reader up in its rapture. A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

But historical fiction is not historical fact, as any glance at a bookshop would reveal. Do artists need to be accurate to recreate history? 2011-02-28T15:19:06Z

While the film is certainly historical, Burns also sees Robinson’s story as incredibly contemporary and relevant to the present day. Ken Burns zooms in on Jackie Robinson: baseball great and civil rights hero 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

At other times, I read fiction, but rarely of the historical variety. Alison Weir: By the Book 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

A singer whose coolly drifting vocals never quite feel disembodied or out of reach, Serpa has recently been working more directly with political and historical topics. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

But the deep historical roots of “1776” seemed to her as ripe for investigation online as any play or musical might be. Perspective | A Tony-winning director finds a rewarding new way to build a musical in the age of covid-19 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

For a time, the two historical lovers were inseparable, and their early letters indicate both passion and whimsy as well as heated intellectual exchange. Well Hello, Dolly: Mileva Marić, Albert Einstein and the myth of the Great Man 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Have you got an historical fiction recommendation to share? If you like books like these: historical fiction for teens 2013-05-14T08:00:00Z

Mr. Reid, in a top hat and tuxedo, is the suave uptown guide on a historical tour through Harlem nightclubs in the 1930s. T. Oliver Reid Performs at the Metropolitan Room 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

In the show, called “Class Issues” and running through Jan. 9, 2023, many of the artworks, both contemporary and historical, are about financial and social inequality. Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

That’s because the park system oversees more than 400 sites, including battlefields, monuments, historical parks, lakeshores and seashores, scenic rivers — even the White House! National Park Service marks 100 years of preserving natural treasures 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Taste a slice of Nassau’s Euro side at Van Breugel’s, a Dutch-owned dining spot in a restored historical home decorated with original Bahamian artwork throughout. 36 Hours in Nassau, the Bahamas 2014-03-13T16:00:51Z

Brings back memories and jogs my historical Rolodex. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

While the book is dominated by images of clanking chainmail-clad warriors, columns of text detailing the game’s historical development also snake through its pages. Of Demogorgons and Purple Worms — a Visual History of Dungeons & Dragons 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

But Seconds Out is no straightforward piece of historical fiction, as the author is at pains to insist. Why Martin Kohan won't tango 2010-09-17T15:20:00Z

He wrote about the East and historical fiction rather than translating a contemporary Chinese American experience, which was increasingly far from his life. 'Flower Drum Song' author C.Y. Lee eyes San Gabriel Valley for new stories 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

For his bloody and most entertaining book, Bondurant consulted the copious historical record and squeezed as much information as he could from his taciturn relatives. Lawless: A Crime Drama That's Remorseless?and Often Lifeless 2012-05-19T20:14:23Z

It’s a chance to discover the beauty of the country’s north and visit many historical and sacred Indigenous sites. Boots on! Five of the best multi-day hiking trails across Australia 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

There are few historical bases it does not tag. ‘Impeachment’ Review: A She Said, She Said Situation 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

“I loved Gee-Gee the way other people love their parents, and no matter how many historical demons stalked that relationship, I know that Gee-Gee loved me back,” Mann writes. My critics ‘were in some measure correct,’ Sally Mann admits in memoir 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Yet even mute wooden logs and beams appear to teem with life in Nakashima’s art, whose depths are historical as well as stylistic. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

They are part of an incredible historical archive. Wednesday is last day for Bellevue's Museum of Doll Art 2012-02-29T22:10:05Z

Ho and Chiu organized the show chronologically, not by the date of Neshat’s work but by historical events each work features. A Captivating Survey of Works by Iranian Artist Shirin Neshat Will Open at the Hirshhorn Museum 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

A fourth might focus on a conventional art historical category — the Dutch Golden Age, say, or painted ceramics from ancient western Mexico. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

She later sent The New York Times a statement in which she said: “I want to be mindful of creating something that invites conversation, rather than stating historical facts.” The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

It was the perfect jumping off point to have this simple revenge tale that everyone knows that he could then stuff to the brim with historical details of rituals and weapons and mythology. A Viking epic to conquer them all in ‘The Northman’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

Some love letters have as their backdrop important historical events; others reveal the more day-to-day challenges of ordinary people. Take the time to write a love letter 2011-01-31T16:50:04Z

Wagner, who was often referred to as the father of modernist architecture, and his prized student Hoffmann were members of Vienna’s Secessionist movement—a group of artists and scholars that rejected historical styles and methods. Inside Vienna's Church of St. Leopold and the Sanatorium Purkersdorf 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

From lush forests sheltering waterfalls and warm springs in the west to the Alpine-like mountains of the east, from festivals to historical sites, attractions are in no shortage in the west African country. Nigerian millennials fuel domestic tourism 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Patrick O'Connell, who bears a striking resemblance to busts of the historical Julius Caesar, plays the general as a slightly dim egotist and becomes really ghoulish in his afterlife cameos.  A high-style, intermittently substantive 'Caesar' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Their exclusion is not a statement of their historical importance, nor is it meant as a slight. A thorny question for African American museum: Whose story do we tell? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

In his new book, “True Style,” the fashion writer G. Bruce Boyer, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of men’s clothing, puts today’s menswear culture in historical perspective. It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Jessie's stories provided the first of many counterpoints to my own white, middle-class schooling, which largely presented both sexism and racism as historical, linear and resolved. We are far from Stoneybrook now: On the quiet revolution of "The Baby-Sitters Club" 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

Its value as a historical oddity may be greater than its artistic value. Hollywood Ending Near for Orson Welles’s Last Film 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

The White House’s director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, said he tweeted the meme from an official government account so it would have to be recorded in the historical archives. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

However aristocratic and privileged opera's historical pedigree might be, there is nothing in Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, or Puccini's works that has to tie them exclusively to the social conditions in which they were created. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z

Snubs: “Show Me a Hero” — David Simon’s ground-level-politics drama for HBO deserved a nod, but maybe there were already too many racially and politically charged historical dramas in the field. Emmy Nominations 2016: This Year’s Snubs and Surprises 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

There are few more severe tests of cinematic taste than the historical drama. Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

That morsel of historical arcana is the basis of “The Favourite,” a wildly entertaining, bracingly cynical comedy of royal manners directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Another of "Beloved Sisters'" strengths is the attention it pays both to physical setting and historical time. 'Beloved Sisters' a captivating period tale of forbidden love 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

There is, it would seem, a spectre haunting the historical profession. 'From PhD to BBC': are academic historians too hungry for fame? 2012-07-12T16:38:00Z

Paige Hathaway’s design includes historical projections by Sarah Tundermann, but they get a little lost against the clutter. Review | A cheerful bio-drama about America’s favorite sex therapist, Dr. Ruth 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

My next book will stay with spies, I expect, but shift historical focus. ArtsBeat: The Spy Game: Ben Macintyre Talks About 'Double Cross' 2012-08-01T18:12:24Z

Each of these fascinating works by renowned biblical scholars addresses a great question, one historical and the other theological. Two Authors Examine Biblical History for Clues About Faith 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

“Simply banning historical objects and symbols is certainly not a solution either. Instead, a concerted effort is needed that goes deeper and takes longer. An effort that unites us instead of divides us.” Dutch king won’t use carriage criticized for colonial image 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

At times it’s the sort of ridiculously anachronistic period film in which historical characters act like 21st-century teenagers who happen to be wearing hoop skirts. | 'Princess Kaiulan': Q?orianka Kilcher Stars in Tale of Hawaiian History 2010-05-13T23:12:00Z

“Kirsch’s essays are expertly made, each one deftly including just enough historical context, healthy portions of summary and exposition, and the lightest sprinkling of interpretation and evaluation,” Josh Lambert writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

The densely crowded evening made me wish that a brave repertory company would devote an entire season to Mr. LaChiusa’s work, which has strong historical themes. Music Review: Michael John LaChiusa Has His Night at the Allen Room 2014-02-04T21:44:49Z

The museum — where most exhibits, though not all, are translated into English and Spanish — provides historical perspective but, more important, goes pretty far in replicating the excitement in the stadiums. Brazil, Where the Beautiful Game Struts 2013-04-12T18:36:34Z

Above all, the movie confronts a political and historical paradox that exerts its distorting force in French laws and mores: the illusion of color blindness that’s central to the French national self-image. “Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

There have been grumblings that he dumbs down and simplifies his history shows, taking a sweeping view of history designed more for the verbal flourish than historical accuracy. Simon Schama: TV dumber-down or simply the greatest? 2012-06-28T13:55:10Z

Allison offers erudite historical case studies that illuminate the pressure toward military confrontation when a rising power challenges a dominant one. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Companies such as Facebook have begun using algorithms and historical data to predict which of their users might commit crimes using their services. How Facebook could get you arrested 2013-03-09T19:20:01Z

Most are small-scale, local affairs, sometimes just a room or two attached to a temple, with display cases of historical or archaeological material. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z

Frances FitzGerald’s “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” is a 700-page historical overview of the conservative Protestantism that has become so omnipresent in our public life, including its offshoots in fundamentalism and Pentecostalism. With God on Their Side: How Evangelicals Entered American Politics 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

In a news release Starz described the series as a “historical fantasy” that would follow “the ‘untold’ story of the world’s greatest genius during his raucous youth in Renaissance Florence.” ArtsBeat Blog: Hero of New Starz Series Is Leonardo da Vinci, International Man of Mystery 2011-10-25T18:14:33Z

One of them was Algiers Point, which features a historical marker that Ms. Walker said “halfway commemorates” a 1720s holding area for slaves where they were kept before being shipped to auction across the river. After a Blowup Kara Walker Lets Off Steam in New Orleans 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

A show such as this one can never be definitive, if only because the paucity of historical evidence will always preclude final answers. Season preview: At last, Piero di Cosimo gets a retrospective — and it’s in D.C. 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rasovsky produced, wrote and directed his radio plays, not all of them historical or literary in theme. Yuri Rasovsky, Radio and Audio Book Dramatist, Dies at 67 2012-01-25T21:43:55Z

With fictional characters interwoven with historical figures – Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky – and set against the McCarthy era in the US, it sounds as though it has all the ingredients for another great novel. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Still, an exhibition that sees the Bernadette Corporation from a broader historical and philosophical perspective — a view not blinded by group’s own carefully constructed mystique — would be nice gift for inquiring minds. Art In Review: BERNADETTE CORPORATION: ‘2000 Wasted Years’ 2012-10-04T21:14:58Z

Fortunately, many of the historical towns and nearby landmarks that appeared on the show are open to visitors as well. "The White Lotus": Here are the real hotels featured on the show, but can you afford them? 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

When we fumble in the dark for a historical precedent, our hands keep reaching for the 30s because they at least come with a little light. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

His adaptation of the historical novel by Alexandre Dumas père is similarly confrontational, treating the story of Marguerite de Valois, a.k.a. Portraits of Aristocracy in ‘Queen Margot’ and ‘Blanche’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

A great art historical discovery only divides the characters; several of them invoke the Tower of Babel story to suggest that humans will always fall into sectarian factions. David Edgar’s ‘Pentecost,’ Revived by PTP/NYC 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

There are historical laws of gravity in historical fiction; big things are happening in the world, and my characters are affected by those. A Q&A with author Ivan Doig, whose latest novel is 'Work Song' 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z

“The viewer will bring their emotional and historical package to that moment, and it will be different for every single one.” Official Obama Portraits Are Finally Being Unveiled at the White House 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

In “Pearls of the Crown,” the first of Guitry’s great historical pageants, the off-screen narration is given to a chorus of storytellers. DVDs: Films of Sacha Guitry, a French Charmer, on DVD 2010-07-31T05:00:00Z

Moreover, the autobiographical facts Tuck includes often segue into relevant historical information — about street names, for example, ocean liners, news stories of the day — lending an aura of even greater veracity. ‘The Double Life of Liliane’ review: A novel that blends fact and fiction 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

I’m going to map more historical periods, including the 15th century. Fantasy map-making: 'I like vintage style with a modern twist' 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

He sees the genre as “overdue” for some reassessment — an increasingly popular view, based on the recent flurry of quirky historical stories. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Several mid-sized hits that won critical acclaim, including Steven Spielberg's historical drama "Lincoln" and the Iran hostage thriller "Argo," became box office darlings. "Hobbit" may bring a Hollywood ending to 2012 box office 2012-11-30T12:21:40Z

By anchoring the book on these five historical figures — each of them brilliant, complicated and fascinating — Kendi renders this work of intellectual history as compelling as the juiciest biography. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Her book retains the endnotes, bibliography and index required for an advanced degree, but the text itself is interesting and details the historical context clearly. ‘Encounters in Avalanche Country’: settlers in harm’s way 2013-12-05T20:48:19Z

Featuring reporters, aid workers, military personnel and civilians, the series explores the conflict from every angle, while also digging into the historical context. 6 Podcasts That Go Deeper on the Headlines 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

As we process, simultaneously, the enormous historical bias of the movie industry toward whiteness and the uneven progress it’s making toward better representation, two opposite ideas are forced to coexist. The Awkward Politics of the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Despite the book’s subtitle, readers learn frustratingly little about Margret; the historical record is too lean. Bones of contention 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

No special cultural or historical importance can be derived from the Borg-McEnroe battle, but sports don’t always carry that kind of significance. Review: ‘Borg vs. McEnroe’ Revisits an Epic Court Battle 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

The historical worldliness of the city also explains the richness and variety of the collections at the recently expanded and renovated Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève, locally known as the MEG. In Geneva, Art Thrives Where Watches Were Made 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

You won’t find any of the namesake cars in the Trolley Square neighborhood anymore, but you will find a cluster of restaurants and nightspots that blend right into the historical residential buildings. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Wilmington, Del. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

That is awesome, because that is a linguistic and historical tie back to Old English, the dyslexic-looking Germanic language that started this whole shebang almost 1,500 years ago. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z

A building I’ve often discounted as an eyesore took on new meaning when we found an overlooked historical marker. Under quarantine, we rediscovered our Paris neighborhood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Burton was enamored of historical pieces, and in 1972 purchased the famous 17th-century Taj Mahal diamond pendant for Taylor's 40th birthday. Elizabeth Taylor's iconic jewels coming to auction 2011-09-07T11:50:12Z

In a not-entirely-deft bit of cinematic historical revisionism at its outset, “The Jesus Rolls” dispenses with the character’s problematic sex-offender status. ‘The Jesus Rolls’ Review: ‘The Big Lebowski’ Character Is on a … 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

There’s an inherent difficulty in presenting historical figures to modern audiences. ‘Lost City of Z’ alters history for the sake of modern audiences. Are we okay with that? 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Less successful are See’s treatments of larger historical moments, during which the characters are often reduced to mouthpieces for exposition. Lisa See Sets a Coming-of-Age Story in the Tumultuous Seas of Occupied Korea 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

But since the gala, like so much else, was forced to go remote, the Philharmonic had some fun with the format, filming its current players performing to historical footage of Bernstein wielding his baton. With No Tickets to Sell, Arts Groups Appeal to Donors to Survive 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

Antiques, after all, offer the intangible pleasures of beauty and historical significance rather than the guaranteed profit margins that please bean counters. Antiques: New Antiques Websites Join Crowded Field 2014-02-13T20:33:28Z

Anyone who deals in ancient history is not playing with a full deck of cards; we have to figure out a way to fill in the holes that the historical evidence doesn’t provide for us. ArtsBeat: The Life of Jesus: Reza Aslan Talks About ‘Zealot’ 2013-08-02T20:42:32Z

The Dawn of TV The growing importance of image is given full historical context. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Some Ties That Bind 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

The notion of Fassbinder tackling science fiction might seem strange given the extent to which his films are embedded in social and historical realities. Film: A Bold Vision, Still Ahead of Its Time 2010-04-04T03:02:00Z

But what do we know about the historical Charlotte? Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Secrecy is, on the surface, a more straightforwardly historical novel, peopled with a number of real characters. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z

It was very smart of Rowan to pick a historical figure. 'It looks like a haunted waxwork': The Great British Bake Off bust cakes – ranked! 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

“In the era of the Jam and Stranglers, this looked almost like historical re-enactment.” Whereforeart thou, rock gods? 'Uncommon People' has the answer 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

One also wonders if the more ahistorical dance-music fans wouldn’t quickly become more historical, and more Detroit-minded, if the festival were to produce some visible extra layers of content — publications, documentaries, panel discussions. Made in Detroit, Differing Music Models 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

A lack of historical documents spawned conspiracy theories he wanted to debunk. Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z

The 1960s spawned what Maslon calls “stealth” shows that used historical subjects to treat current issues: “Cabaret,” for example, spoke to the rising civil rights movement through its Weimar frame. Song and dance as a political ‘Fix’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

“We have to deal with the problem our historical moment proposes, the burden of our time,” he wrote. A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

By all appearances, Facebook had spurned his perfectly reputable historical novel simply because it was released by a right-wing publisher. Perspective | Did Facebook ‘cancel Abe Lincoln’? The truth is complicated — and alarming. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

That creates unique challenges when displaying the visual arts within a museum with a larger purpose, both historical and cultural. Review | Breonna Taylor’s image adorned T-shirts, signs and street murals. Now her portrait is in the Smithsonian. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

For Jarrett, it was not just a moment to see her family’s story inscribed into the federal government’s historical archive; it was also a most glamorous kind of family reunion. Does this face look familiar? Valerie Jarrett’s ancestor honored with stamp. 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

A white girl and a black boy struggle to create change during a tense summer in this powerful historical novel. Best 2014 books for kids: Fiction, nonfiction and picture books 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Q: As a historical novelist, what do you believe is your obligation to render history accurately? Jamie Ford writes about ‘a different world’ — 1920s-’30s Seattle 2013-09-06T21:49:48Z

Mr. Cornegy said that as they made the case for Weeksville, they explained its historical significance and its ability to serve as a “guidepost” for understanding the Black experience in New York. How Weeksville, a Center of Black History, Fought to Survive 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

And then there was its impeccable historical material. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

We’ve covered momentous historical events, such as the D Day landings, and humble ones, like the first signs of spring in midtown. A Summer in the New Yorker Archive 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

So another of Katharina's initiatives has been the setting up of an independent historical commission to investigate the unanswered questions about the festival's Nazi connections. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

This term generally refers to outstanding commercial-gallery exhibitions of historical material — anything 30 years or older — that might almost as easily be in a museum. Last Chance: Warhol, Basquiat and Other History Lessons 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

But some of the most popular TV and film depictions, like “The Favourite” or “Marie Antoinette,” take creative liberties when it comes to the myths or rumors that surround these historical figures. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Ganja & Hess’ and ‘Outcry’ 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

There are several problems: the first is the lack of historical depth. Mexico: Democracy Interrupted by Jo Tuckman - review 2012-06-29T21:55:08Z

With the rise of literacy and science, Scriptures were printed and scrutinized, then examined as if they were historical documents. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The marriage of convenience is a well-worn, well-loved trope in historical romance. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

In achieving that ideal, though, it may well be helpful to have historical material like the new Demessieux set. She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

I was startled to discover that almost all of the 676 pages are taken up with practical recipes and techniques, with very little historical narrative. Bee Wilson: rereading Food in England by Dorothy Hartley 2012-12-14T22:55:05Z

Semprún’s work is largely autobiographical, yet the fact that it draws inspiration from his experiences should not lead us to assume that it gives us a complete or historical picture of his life. Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

In perhaps the most awkward bit of historical exposition ever squeezed into a “Downton” script, Edith declares, “There’s a trial going on in Munich of the leader of a group of thugs there.” 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Thomas and the Heterosexual Household 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Business Insider presents a historical view of Ellis Island in its heyday. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

But to others, it represented part of a long-overdue racial reckoning within the white-dominated historical profession, with broader implications for how history gets written, and by whom. Clash of the Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

On Jesus Preparing for this particular role is not just about understanding historical Jesus. John Legend and the ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Cast on Faith and Musicals 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

When reading “War and Peace,” we tend to forget that it is a historical novel. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z

Each guide is $9.99 and provides suggested itineraries, as well as practical and historical information about the country. In Transit Blog: Avoid Roaming Charges With Offline Apps 2012-04-21T14:00:06Z

Given his longstanding interest in literary and historical subjects, Mr. Wright was sometimes asked how he found himself writing two books with Pavarotti. William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Her reporting is a reminder that we’re living through a historical anomaly that, without the courage and fortitude of Constand and her sister survivors, may not have come to pass. Review | For years, one reporter investigated allegations against Bill Cosby — even when no one was listening 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Not just items of beauty but also kitsch: "objects cut loose from their mass market origins and granted talismanic powers to evoke historical moments or a personal past." Michelle de Kretser: Who travels? Who doesn't? What is home?' - interview 2013-06-22T00:33:57Z

But to force today’s mentality and knowledge onto a historical period is, necessarily, to push a square peg through a round hole. The art of learning: Why art history might be the most important subject you could study today 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

It was masterful how he worked that historical thread. “BlacKkKlansman” author Ron Stallworth: Donald Trump accomplished David Duke’s goal 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Sun Yat-sen, too, is no ordinary historical figure to the Chinese. Opera Review: Hong Kong, Not Beijing, Sees an Opera Laced With Revolutionary Zeal 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z

“How to” activities are paired with basic protest art methodology — symbols, colors, fonts, etc. — and historical context. Hang It, Install It, Perform It — and Yes, Wear Your Art on Your Sleeve 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

I have never read anything quite like the brilliantly pessimistic fiction of the Croatian writer Dasa Drndic; her treatment of historical amnesia, of political despair and shame, felt blazingly new. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

This particular spot, the Tribu des Gourmets, advocates for the sometimes misunderstood wines of Alsace, promoting the city’s important historical links with the vineyards. A beacon of Christmas tradition in Strasbourg, France 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

This spiritual experience prompted Ms Cumming to look for historical records of other personal encounters with art. With brush and eye 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The book will share the stories of 13 historical women who relentlessly pursued their goals in the face of opposition, including Harriet Tubman, Nellie Bly, Maria Tallchief and Oprah Winfrey. Chelsea Clinton to Publish Children’s Book, ‘She Persisted’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

We sit around a table for about eight weeks with the director and a historical adviser and we read the books in a circle. How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z

One of the most exciting discoveries, Kivu Ruhorahoza’s “Father’s Day” knits together three loosely connected stories that explore the anguished toll of historical and generational traumas. Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

When it comes to historical Mormonism, the founding of the religion by Joseph Smith, the show is all lesson. “Under the Banner of Heaven” sags with the heavy weight of history 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Challenges, like clues, riddles, photos and trivia questions, texted to your phone, will guide you to each landmark, making it more like a historical scavenger hunt than like a walking tour. New York Walking Tours by Phone, and a Local Business App 2011-12-08T21:57:36Z

It is an idyllic historical theme park, a bit sleepy despite its teeming crowds and furious cash-flow — a darling bastion of lightly educational and politically innocuous amusement. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

He does much more than replicate historical documents and transcripts. Video artist Gerard Byrne: the great pretender 2013-01-17T06:30:01Z

But from a historical perspective, it’s fascinating and illuminating. ‘For a New World to Come,’ Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“It is a historical literary creation of political and social importance. It is a brilliant work of dystopian literature – as important as Orwell’s ‘1984’,” Duke says in the video. Anti-Semitism, illustrated: David Duke working on a new “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

The statues needn’t be destroyed, many said — simply moved to an environment in which they can be studied and understood as historical relics rather than enduringly potent symbols of oppression. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The museum’s historical exhibition is divided into three major sections. Recalling Sept. 11 by Inverting a Museum’s Usual Role 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Nearly 100 buildings in town are listed on the National Historic Register — and the town is part of the Ebey historical reserve along with the farms, the bluffs, the beach, and two state parks. Worth the Trip: Soul-nourishing vistas at Ebey’s Landing 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Cinematic historical fiction should not, this argument goes, be taken as faithful history lessons. ‘Selma’ Questions Are Nothing New for Historical Films 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

She experimented with forming figures from it but ended up using it mostly to accent and frame her paintings, a device that gives them literal texture as well as historical depth. The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The artist suggested this arrangement that roams freely over his career, including major works exploring mythological and historical themes made in the past few years. Review | Is he or isn’t he an abstract painter? Two museums differ. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Every now and then it would pop up in a column that was written by one of my colleagues about just interesting historical stories from Baltimore. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Paying homage to the market’s location, around where the city was founded in the late 13th century, it includes a historical timeline and archaeological artifacts discovered during construction. In Rotterdam, Produce Real and Digital 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

On Friday and Saturday, a historical exhibition will be on view from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. New York State Office Building, 163 West 125th Street, Harlem. Spare Times for Aug. 29-Sept. 4 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

He plans to play one of Mozart’s sonatas and a new work of his own on the historical fiddle. ArtsBeat: Mozart Never Made It to America, but His Violin and Viola Are On the Way 2013-05-29T19:38:44Z

Why go: To see charming historical cities, busy canals and waterways, beautiful gardens and tulip fields, picturesque windmills, old-world Dutch masterpieces, and new-world design. Why your next vacation should be in the Netherlands 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Overall, there were 195 more suicides than expected in the nine months after the show premiered, based on historical and seasonal trends. Teen suicides rose after Netflix's 13 Reasons Why aired, US study shows 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

However, some recent historical detective work has caused researchers to reassess that timeline. The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Beauman, the author of the ingenious genre-bending historical confections Boxer, Beetle and , is talented, funny, clever and – I think it's fair to say – a massive show-off. Best of Young British Novelists 4, edited by John Freeman – review 2013-04-16T14:14:05Z

Upstairs, a collection of photographs and artifacts details another historical milestone for Campo: its role as a key Army base that served as the last home of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of Buffalo Soldiers. In Campo, 25 feet from the Mexican border, California’s Old West roots remain 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Other aspects of the installation refer to other historical and cultural elements. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

But the story probes dark corners, using a ghastly actual incident that happened in Tacoma, Wash., as its historical point of origin. | 'Verse Chorus Verse': ?Verse Chorus Verse? Riffs on Grunge at Cherry Lane - Review 2011-11-06T22:13:02Z

Other pluses: The book’s overview of geopolitics includes more watershed historical moments than one might anticipate, from the Armenian genocide of 1915-16 to Iran-contra. Review | Do millennial women really need the book ‘How to Skimm Your Life’? Give us more credit. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

For the purpose of this show it seems that “historical blunders” is synonymous with “political scandal.” Craig Ferguson’s History Show, “Join or Die” 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Mrs. Obama’s previous book, “American Grown,” promoted healthy eating through recipes and historical vignettes. Michelle Obama’s Memoir to Arrive in November 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

The filibuster’s historical highlight reel includes an overnight Republican filibuster in 1988 of a Democratic-sponsored bill to curb spending in senatorial campaigns. No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

Roughly 40 minutes from Uruapan, I wound through the pretty historical center of Paracho, a town known for its handmade guitars and vibrant Sunday market, to the sleepy village of Ahuiran. Handmade Visions on the Crafts Trail in Mexico 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Leaving the church, you cross The Highway, a historical magnet for vice and murder. First the gangsters, then the bankers: how The Long Good Friday foretold the future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Like most marriages, Graham and Annie’s is rife with tension, including historical context: Though he is older, both are creatures of the 1970s. Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Judged by their historical accuracy, cinematic portrayals are a mixed bag. HBO’s "House of the Dragon" was inspired by a real medieval dynastic struggle over a female ruler 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

I did think," he adds, "about just doing Douglass but then it would have been a historical novel and" – he pulls a face – "I hate the term … It just seems steeped in aspic. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z

Dozens of little-known stories about historical events big and small are told while outlining the duties of the appointed official most responsible for seeing whether a president's agenda succeeds or fails. Documentary brings together 20 presidential chiefs 2013-09-10T13:08:37Z

In this case, though, the action is perilously real, and the camera isn’t only capturing a historical event, it’s part of the making of it. Poitras, who earned Snowden’s trust, reaches biggest audience with ‘Citizenfour’

The first, up now, has both historical material and work by nearly two dozen contemporary artists. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The museum’s publications are models of pedantic scholarship with elaborate citations, some of which lead to nonexistent sources, others pointing to extraordinary historical figures, like the 17th-century Jesuit polymath Athansius Kircher. Museum Review: Museum of Jurrasic Technology Shows Its Wild Side - Review 2012-01-09T23:12:21Z

Black Twitter would go on to teach me about historical figures like Henry "Box" Brown, who was a slave that convinced his friends to tape him up in a box and mail him to freedom. RIP Twitter: You were once cool 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z

It also infuses its imagery with historical social justice movements throughout the world. New Statue of Liberty Museum Illuminates a Forgotten History 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Schultz adds another sort of meaning by incorporating talismans of historical locations. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Too much implausibility as well: It is full of historical information delivered as if it were natural dialogue. Review: ‘Novenas’ Offers Prayers for a Hospital That Died 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

If “communism” is too laden with historical failures and semantic difficulties, are “socialism” or “social democracy” better alternatives? Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

When Dormeshia and the other stellar tap dancers of “Ladies in the Shoe” perform at the 92nd Street Y, New York, on Saturday, the resonances will be both acoustic and historical. 92nd Street Y, a Storied Home of Dance, Gives It More Space 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The author — whose previous books include “Little,” a historical novel about Madame Tussaud, and a Dickensian-style trilogy for middle grade readers — is a master of the dusty yet droll tone. P.O.V.: You’re Geppetto, Missing Your Wooden Son From Inside the Belly of a Fish 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

This selection features both historical and recent work by women who in effect paved the way for the group up front. Art in Review: ?PAVERS? 2011-01-20T22:45:02Z

Mr. Byrne’s film is a sober, evenhanded recapitulation of Sands’s imprisonment and death that places him in a historical context. Review: ‘Bobby Sands: 66 Days’ Lionizes an I.R.A. Martyr 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

I read this book while tracing the historical footprint of the Bacchic cult. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Paintings and sculptures from the same period are placed together to show historical connections, sometimes with biting humor. Museums: Barnstorming Masterpieces Move Into the Home They Helped Pay For 2011-10-19T04:05:22Z

But this three-part historical primer at the Guggenheim Museum is a great way to start. Dance Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

I found a wealth of diaries, published memoirs and historical accounts from which to draw extracts. How I wrote: Terezín: A Story of the Holocaust 2013-01-27T09:18:30Z

Here, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, a direct outgrowth of the Jones-Lewis band, hunkers down for a weeklong engagement, playing music from across the historical spectrum. Jazz Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

TNT’s vibrant new drama “Will,” premiering July 10, offers a decidedly imaginative — and punk rock — vision of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan era and draws on historical facts to show the enduring  power of the pen. WATCH: TNT’s “Will” shows Shakespeare as a voice of the resistance 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Thurber’s work, “The Insurgents,” is about a wanderer who travels through the United States searching for something to believe in, and a meditation on historical figures and their responses to injustice. A Craig Grant Show and a New Lucy Thurber Play Coming From Labyrinth Theater 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

That tune got Mr. Pérez thinking about Ireland’s resistance to assimilation and led him to rap about all the historical circumstances, like wars and dictatorships, that ordinary people have weathered. Calle 13 Prepares New Album, ‘Multi_Viral’ 2014-02-21T17:00:01Z

His best waxworks photographs are pictures of sculptures of historical figures based on photos of people posing to look like paintings or photos of those figures. Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Jekyll and Hyde Year 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

The exhibit also features works by three contemporary artists who similarly plumb historical archives to inform their art — creating a dialogue with Mr. Lawrence’s deeply researched, intimately scaled paintings. Lost, and Now Found, Art From the Civil Rights Era 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

It feels like a catalog drama at times, an illustrated checklist of historical themes, references and diseases, backward-engineered from the research. 'The Knick' is a bloody trip back to 1900-style doctoring 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

It’s important to report on what is going on for the historical record, he said. Journalists despair over toll of disinformation on jobs 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Even though Dr. Blutinger said that he sees the historical value of his emergency room video diaries, he has yet to revisit the peak-crisis videos himself. This Year Will End Eventually. Document It While You Can. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Beyond some basic historical context, the exhibition offers no revelatory perspective on its contents. Art Review: Plains Indian Culture, as Seen Through the Ingenuity of the Tepee 2011-03-14T22:32:12Z

He wanted a lot of American flags onscreen, especially when held in historical footage by black boys and girls. Review: ‘True South’ Illuminates the Man Behind ‘Eyes on the Prize’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

These signs are written in the spare, declarative language of the usual historical marker, which only enhances their power. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

For the true-blue railroad nut on your list: Hayes, author of several highly regarded historical atlases, tells the story of the development of North American railroads through words, pictures, historical maps and beautiful railroad-based ephemera. 27 beautiful books to grace your coffee table ? or someone else's 2010-12-18T01:33:05Z

If historical dates were times on the 24-hour clock so that 2010 was 10 past eight, how many minutes would it be from the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War? TV review: University Challenge 2011-04-04T21:00:02Z

In short, what Darwin had begun, as an outgrowth of trying to prove the truth of evolution, was the new science of historical biogeography. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z

Now a new work is joining the canon of dramatized historical conflict. ‘Visible Language’ captures the historic dispute in D.C. over how to teach the deaf

Most of the books written about historical women focus on the famous ones, who are also the most privileged, which leaves underserved women often overlooked. Review | Revisiting ‘The Iliad’ from the women’s perspective 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

They refer to — but do not distinguish between — art, historical monuments and Macy’s. Art In Review: Diane Simpson 2013-12-13T00:35:36Z

Monuments and historical museums are always mirrors, advertisements, time bombs. Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Framed around the narrator's long walks in East Anglia, Sebald shows how one man looks aslant at historical atrocity. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z

SAT Theatrical, historic, fun garments, hats, accessories, fabrics by Somewhere In Time, Unlimited historical costume group, noon-3 p.m. Community calendar 2012-06-21T01:23:04Z

“The architects have felt free to find their answers in terms of existing building types and historical precedents,” she wrote, “rather than through the invention of new forms. The design goes beyond modernism.” Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

The works of William Byrd hold significant historical interest, but they are also remarkably influential on music that is being written today. How William Byrd Influences Music, 400 Years After His Death 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

He says Covid-related items of “historical and cultural significance” are being digitally submitted and shared online. How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

Whereas we are constantly held to that good old double standard, which is so complex and deep and charged with historical and mythological and cultural totems. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

“He doesn’t display any historical consciousness or depth.” Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

One of his main responsibilities is to photograph buildings of historical importance for the Library of Congress and its Historic American Buildings Survey, the country’s first federal preservation program, which was founded in 1933. You snap pix of national parks for fun. Jarob Ortiz takes them for a living. 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Beyond having a pretty voice, poise and interpretive insight, Ms. Oberlin is a thorough researcher who placed many of the songs in a historical or personal context. Music Review: Karen Oberlin Sings Loesser at the Oak Room 2010-06-10T22:18:00Z

Because we'd done the historical work and the data work and the reporting work to actually kind of think through these things a little bit more deeply. Nate Silver: ‘There were some models that gave Trump as little as a 1 or 2 percent chance’ of winning in 2016 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

It was one of the most celebrated historical works of the 1990s, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and required reading for any self-respecting history graduate student. How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Kirchheimer, born in Germany in 1931 and brought to New York as a child, in 1936, films his adoptive city and its architecture with visual passion, historical enthusiasm, and analytical insight. What to Stream Over Labor Day Weekend: Catch Up on Four of the Year’s Best Films 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

“Normally, when working on either a historical character or literary character, I find that it’s good to start from a blank slate anyway,” Anderson said. Gillian Anderson brings uncanny ‘Iron Lady’ to ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

But really Sebald was describing the past, which everywhere turns up unexpectedly, jolting us from our historical amnesia. Abroad: 13th Linz Album of Hitler?s Returned to Germany 2010-05-18T23:58:00Z

Rihanna, or her hologram, tweeted about it as if it were a great historical event. The Year in Pop: Viral Stardom and Martial Dance Music 2012-12-28T17:07:10Z

It’s also a minor one, despite the commendable historical details characteristic of Mr. Taylor’s many genre studies and despite a few remarkable but brief moments. Dance Review: Another Taylor Marathon: They Push Dancers, Don’t They? 2014-03-16T21:23:50Z

Against these sexist and art historical reverberations, Bessone has mucked with the form even further. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

In leading the development of a new museum, which does not yet have a building, Yao would have been overseeing an ambitious endeavor — curating a collection designed to represent the historical influence of American women. Director of New Women’s History Museum Withdraws, Citing Family Issues 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

The streaming service pledged to eventually bring the film back “with a discussion of its historical context” while denouncing its racial missteps, a spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Citing Racist Depictions 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Take the three giant photographic portraits that are part of the artist’s Constellation series, depicting diverse historical personalities he considers unjustly neglected. Artist Tavares Strachan’s show at Frye packed with subversive drama 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

“He’s just a historical person from the 20th century,” Fremont says, “that people need to know about.” | The Private Works of a Gallerist Who Changed Art Forever 2014-03-06T17:22:13Z

But there’s a more historical reference at play here too: the experiences of First Nations people during the White Australia era. Cleverman recap, season one episode one: supernatural and political 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

But the enforced pause is a reminder that superheroes as a genre frame problems and solutions in specific ways, responding to specific historical conditions. Could coronavirus spell the end for superhero movies? 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Yet with strong performances, Mr. Weinert and Ms. Kruger made a case for more than historical interest. Downtown Dance Festival's Echoes of Pete Seeger 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

That much seems to be on the historical record. Books of The Times: Marilyn, Dostoyevsky and Me, Her Pup 2010-12-06T20:40:00Z

The individual stories are powerful, as are the visual comparisons between present-day and historical locations. ‘Still Life in Lodz’ Review: A Painting Becomes a Window 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

She contemplated, she said, a trilogy using another piece of historical music or text that she could “rub up against.” Pam Tanowitz’s Next Act: ‘I Need to Make a Jewish Dance’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

By connecting these contemporary challenges with the Trungs’ warrior lineage, Tran shows us that modern resistance to assimilation is a continuation of a historical fight against imperialism. In a Debut Novel, a Family Legacy of Resistance 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

It combines historical interpretation, close study of objects and open-ended collaboration among artists, professors, students, community members, dancers and more. An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

It’s great if you like to drift among handsome photographs making close comparisons and linkages — and who doesn’t, some of the time? — less so if you are also interested in historical precedent and influence. Art Review: ‘A World of Its Own,’ Examining Photography, at MoMA 2014-02-06T22:33:50Z

Burton K. Kummerow, the historical society’s president, said that the underweight infant buried beside the couple “never really had a chance to survive.” ‘The Porcelain Thief’ Chronicles a Trip to Unearth Chinese Heirlooms 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

To start combating the problems that these historical inequalities have left us with, the psychiatrist insists, we need better sexual education, and one that starts at an early age. A graphic history of sex: ‘There is no gene that drives sexuality. All sexuality is learned’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

The marble carving perished in a fire, in 1831; the Frick borrows the artist’s full-scale plaster version from Italy for the richly detailed historical show “Canova’s George Washington.” What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The curators often seem content to unearth a few modernist gems, create some illuminating juxtapositions and make local historical adjustments. Art Review: ‘A World of Its Own,’ Examining Photography, at MoMA 2014-02-06T22:33:50Z

Chris Browne, the museum’s acting director, sees the institution’s mission as both forward-looking and historical. Jeff Bezos donates $200 million to Air and Space Museum in largest gift to the Smithsonian since its founding 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

The most accessible of his major novels, Poor Things, published in 1992, is a historical pastiche, a Victorian reworking of the Frankenstein story. Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray - review 2012-11-14T08:00:03Z

With all these historical and psychological phenomena to feed our interpretations as performers and listeners, it is no wonder that “Die Schöne Müllerin” continues to exert a strange fascination. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

The historical evidence for the death and resurrection of Jesus is "compelling," according to Bradley, and has turned even hardened non-believers into people of great faith. Fourth Sunday of Lent: Amid 'tragedy' of hopelessness today, reason to rejoice 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

The list ranges from legal thrillers to historical novels to the de rigueur vampire book. Summer reading list: 7 super mysteries and thrillers 2011-06-24T21:26:07Z

There’s always a hint of a goof, an element of comedy and stifled burlesque, in his historical reconstructions—it’s even built into the title of “Story of My Death.” Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The works integrate fragments of their personal family photographs amid historical images and shifting fields of color. Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Schiller took some historical liberties in his version of British history, and created a highly charged confrontation between Elizabeth and Mary where none existed. Queens prepare to clash in ACT Theatre's 'Mary Stuart' 2011-09-08T20:37:10Z

To be eligible a recording must be at least 25 years old and, in the opinion of a panel of music industry professionals, "exhibit qualitative or historical significance." ArtsBeat: Grammy Hall of Fame Harvests a New Crop of Old Songs 2012-11-23T18:51:37Z

There is a longstanding tradition of historical fiction that has explored alternate depictions of the Civil War and its aftermath. ‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

In this electric fusing of fictional characters and historical figures, Hill lights that era ablaze. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Circus buffs and fan magazines have kept big-top lore alive, but until recently many museums and historical societies did not deem the itinerant, ephemeral circus worthy of documenting or preserving. ‘Circus and the City’ at Bard Graduate Center Galleries 2012-09-20T22:40:07Z

“What are the historical ties? What are the trends that are surfacing?” From ‘Liz’ to ‘The Jason’: The bizarre trend of fancy apartments with human names 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

I’m not sure Didion, whose reputation rests on seizing and scrutinising so many historical moments, has ever not been “having a moment”, but we seem to have reached peak Cult of Joan. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

With a rousing, kinetic style reminiscent of “The Battle of Algiers,” and confrontational close-ups of fiery eyes and faces, the film is not merely a historical biopic — it’s a provocation. ‘Marighella’ Review: Battle for Brazil 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

For his part, Burgess says the team is taking pains to balance artistic and documentary elements and to avoid clouding the historical figures in abstraction. This D.C.-based choreographer creates dances about trailblazers, hoping you’ll embrace their ideals 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

This fascinating documentary about "the Jewish Mark Twain" sets the late 19th-century writer's works, triumphs and tribulations against a backdrop of historical tumult. Blue Man Group, Pilobolus are arts highlights 2011-09-28T23:43:06Z

It’s a historical fantasy set in Cairo, with magic and technology mixed in, plus a mystery story. The best science fiction and fantasy of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

This sprawling literary/historical mystery springs from a real event: a deadly explosion on New York's Wall Street in 1920. Tops in crime fiction: Best mysteries of 2011 2011-12-07T23:39:04Z

Constructed in the 18th century by the Chan clan, the Hakka walled village was declared a historical monument and converted into a museum in the 1980s. Top 10 cultural sights in Hong Kong 2013-01-21T10:33:00Z

Sharing these stories – whether through one of Mr. Evans’s historical markers or paintings, or through Johnnie Brown’s tour – gives voice to old spirits that still haunt Savannah’s storied streets and squares. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Yet, Ms. Temkin went on, “there are so many historical landmarks that precede him, so many artists who took the traditional notion of painting in a new direction.” Wade Guyton’s Computer-Made Works at the Whitney 2012-09-27T12:00:35Z

“Along the Tiber” aims to create an environment in which culture and entertainment converge, presenting both historical traditions and modern aspects of the city to over 15,000 nightly visitors. In Transit: Night Life and More Along Rome's Tiber River 2011-08-05T10:00:38Z

Perhaps, as with African-American blues music, appropriating the traditional American Indian dwelling required the historical, moral and geographical distance afforded the British. Noticed: Tepees Crisscross the Atlantic - Noticed 2011-09-09T20:26:30Z

Where many annotated editions come across as perfunctory and unimaginative, this one truly illuminates its text with an abundance of relevant historical, biographical and literary material. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

People played musical instruments, while others sang and took photographs of the rising sun which will provide just under eight hours of sunlight on Wednesday, said English Heritage, which protects the historical site. Thousands gather at Stonehenge for winter solstice 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Few novelists would tread on such hallowed ground, and the challenges of writing historical fiction about Teddy are particularly formidable. Review | Teddy Roosevelt and his pet cougar leap into action 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Nesbit is brilliant in those moments, and captures a paradox of historical writing — that it’s in the invention and improvisation that the past feels most pressing and most real. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

To demolish this building would destroy a very important and historical part of Blackpool's heritage. Bid to save threatened theatre 2013-01-04T11:40:53Z

Her video works are deeply hypnotic, with a strong focus on historical events or moments. A Polish Artist With Varied Talents 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

The playlets are not necessarily historical; many are riffs from modern characters on the persistence of divisions along racial, ethnic, even gender lines. Army of playwrights and D.C. celebs amass for Arena’s ‘Our War’

Today, Carnival is a nexus of past and present: the gravitas of historical rituals and classic Carnival characters collides with modern-day hedonism. Carnival Roundup: Carnival: A Party to Remember, an Island at a Time 2012-11-09T19:19:31Z

It is, in a nutshell, a sweeping historical novel that's also a love story but is rooted in time-travel science fiction and takes on as its subject the meaning of time itself. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Pierson’s hand in the season ahead is evident in a number of eclectic programs with historical, cultural and literary ties to the borough. Brooklyn Philharmonic Lands Alan Pierson as Artistic Director 2011-10-01T04:00:06Z

The intersection of historical trauma and individual destiny isn’t an uncommon theme in contemporary cinema, but Almodóvar handles it with characteristic elegance and a profoundly melancholy humanism. The Future of Movies Collides With the Past at the New York Film Festival 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Such historical tidbits help us see that today’s tech titans didn’t arrive on the scene as superhuman. ‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think that a manufactured mug shot is going to be a lasting historical image,” says Meeg, the Etsy seller. There’s no Trump mug shot, but there’s plenty of Trump mug-shot merch 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

While this is an interesting exercise, it’s very much a historical one — rooted in old tools, practices and definitions of photography, and dependent upon the vintage aesthetic of the thrift store find. ‘Anne Collier,’ a Photography Retrospective at Bard College 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

James Blunt's blunder: Put a photo of himself on Facebook in front of a historical building near Auschwitz, then claimed it was his "hotel in Poland." Pop Torn: 10 pieces of cultural ambivalence 2011-06-25T12:02:00Z

Behind many of the works are references to historical works by European masters such as Caravaggio, Courbet and Titian. Review: Art Shaped by Thailand's Changing Landscape 2010-11-22T12:09:00Z

“I wanted to get it right,” Lee said, “not just with the painting, but the surrounding experience that would help people understand the process of historical mythmaking.” Atlanta’s Cyclorama had the black role in a Civil War battle all wrong. She set about to fix that. 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing like a total absence of safety measures to add a little excitement to a historical site. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Based on Luo Guanzhong's famous historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Dynasty Warriors series is understandably adored in the east, and continues to carve a profitable niche for publisher Koei overseas. Dynasty Warriors 7 ? review 2011-04-02T23:08:14Z

Over many years, as it grew into one of the city’s tent-pole institutions, the museum accreted some two dozen buildings in different historical styles, increasingly pieced together like a crazy quilt. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

The youth movement is building on rich historical foundations. Next Stop: Salonika, Greece?s Cultural Capital 2011-11-04T16:01:38Z

“It’s a road to the historical past,” says Sean-Thomas, referring both to his beer and the style itself, a liquid memento of a simpler, bucolic past. The surprise about saisons

Another Wu Ming trait is the use of historical fiction as a form of cultural protest. Altai by Wu Ming – review 2013-06-01T08:02:25Z

Now that she’s finished the grim final chapter of Cromwell’s story, Mantel says she’s done with historical fiction and plans to focus on writing plays, an entirely new medium for her. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

But then, like so many historical accounts, it vanished into obscurity. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

As for fiction, I fell early under the sway of the historical novelist Mary Renault, whose books set in ancient Greece were a major factor in pushing me toward the study of the classics. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Yet, for all the historical references in “Joker,” it’s a blatant and brazen distortion of the most substantial historical elements at which it winks. “Joker” Is a Viewing Experience of Rare, Numbing Emptiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

According to the academics Birkett and Forbes, there are countless social, economic and historical forces that have helped create and sustain unequal parenting partnerships. ‘I had no idea about the hidden labour’: has the pandemic changed fatherhood for ever? 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

That '40s stylized set of a bar may be authentic, but there could be no historical re-creation under Tuesday's conditions. Audra McDonald captivates a Bowl audience, but she's meant for more 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Salon spoke to Greenberg, who is also the author of “Nixon’s Shadow,” about the responsible use of these historical parallels. Trump isn’t Hitler, but let’s talk about fascism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

“Somebody is using a battle flag to clear away the historical debris to remind everyone that this is an ideal that is supposed to be important to us all,” Ms. Webb said. Rediscovering the Confederate Flag of Truce 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

In any case, while there is not much historical evidence that Solomon himself existed, there's even less for the Queen of Sheba. Solomon and Sheba: Take Bible, add ninjas 2010-07-15T08:06:00Z

However, Miranda has said in interviews that he felt a responsibility to be as historically accurate as possible but that “Hamilton” is necessarily a work of historical fiction, including dramatizations and imprecisions. Historians irked by musical ‘Hamilton’ escalate their duel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

His work is characterized by meticulous attention to place and historical events. Olaf Olafsson, ?Restoration? Author and Time Warner Manager 2012-03-05T16:16:53Z

Photograph: Caroline Andersson The Emperor of Lies is a novel about horrific historical fact, the Holocaust as experienced by the Jews of the Polish ghetto of Lodz. The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg ? review 2011-07-08T09:05:01Z

Ms. Shea bought, in addition to pastoral scenery, fore-edge portraits of literary figures including Shakespeare and the poet Robert Burns, and tableaus of historical moments like the assassination of Caesar and the eruption of Vesuvius. Antiques: Keeping It Real: A Show Made of Fakes 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z

In March 2009, I noted that it was "a cracking read and a vital historical document" and "a gripping dark thriller". Reading group: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a moral maze we can't resist 2013-03-12T15:11:18Z

He has also made donations to the Mississippi Heritage Blues Trail, a collection of historical markers honoring people, places and events in Delta blues history. Robert Plant 'Walking Into Clarksdale' on Saturday 2012-08-09T16:30:19Z

And like “The King’s Speech,” Mr. Wright’s film is a serviceable enough historical drama. Review: ‘Darkest Hour,’ or the Great Man Theory of History (and Acting) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mandelson has plumped for a shadowy historical portrait of the celebrated, but ruthless, Queen Elizabeth I by an unknown artist, while Boateng has chosen Peas are the New Beans by Bob and Roberta Smith. Government Art Collection to go under public scrutiny for first time 2010-12-03T01:01:00Z

“Ken is an artist with the capacity to weave together historical references and contemporary urges when it comes to looking at masculinity,” said Sally Tallant, director of the Queens Museum. The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Applicant: “Well, I’m pretty good at dramas with lots of fictional characters whose lives gradually intersect and are also shaped by actual historical events.” Review: Cramming ‘War & Peace’ Into a Mini-Series 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Her latest book, Women & Power: A Manifesto, brings an illuminating historical perspective to the contemporary abuse of powerful women. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

While they enjoyed the beauty of many of the destinations, it was Birmingham, Ala., that really surprised them as a favorite for its food and historical awareness. In Napa Valley, a Commitment to One Another, and to Showcasing Diversity 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

With subtlety and intelligence, Thomas joins the historical dots to produce a novel with plenty to say – eloquently – about the brutalising effects of the Holocaust. Thrillers roundup – reviews 2013-07-04T09:00:00Z

Over the course of “A Song Everlasting,” I kept expecting Tian’s life to finally fall apart, laying bare the impossibility of telling Chinese narratives of progress in an era of historical amnesia. Ha Jin Considers the Cost of Freedom in ‘A Song Everlasting’ 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

There are around 200 historical fabric designs in the institution’s archive that have been passed down through generations of families. A Glimpse Inside a Florentine Silk-Weaving Workshop 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

Join "pickers" Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz as they scour the country's flea markets, barns and basements in search of antiques, memorabilia and historical artifacts. TV Picks: Search for treasure with 'American Pickers' on History channel 2010-07-23T22:02:00Z

“These are paintings of great historical and qualitative importance,” said Michel Maket, an independent art expert and gallery owner in Paris. Works by Pierre Bonnard From Family Collection to Be Sold 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

But that storyline, at least, can be justified by the ‘historical’ context. Game of Thrones has betrayed the women who made it great 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

The historical material itself seems to dance in this telling. ‘The Jazz Palace,’ by Mary Morris 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Yet the most compelling contemporary works reveal complicated relations to historical African art. ‘Disguise: Masks and Global African Art,’ Where Tradition Meets Avant-Garde 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

You could read a lot of interesting essays about Emily Dickinson’s relationship to the war, from a poetic as well as a historical perspective. ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

"Although some of the characters are based on historical figures, the stories of women have often gone unwritten, and The Dovekeepers is my attempt to imagine those stories," she writes in the acknowledgements. 'The Dovekeepers': Alice Hoffman's novel of the siege of Masada 2011-10-05T23:00:08Z

"I thought there's probably room in the world for one historical folk rock singer and no one else wanted the job," he said. History man Al Stewart digs deep for musical 'time passages' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

“Our investigation of the historical facts concerning this painting has convinced us that this is less than a clear cut claim that raises complex historical questions and includes contradictory information.” A Tricky First Case for the Man Who Wrote the Rules on Nazi Looted Art 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

He visits a cat-themed used bookstore, the world’s only life-size replica of Noah’s Ark, historical centers, “one of the world’s finest miniatures collections” and a theme park called Dinosaur World. ‘Mitch, Please!’ Tours Kentucky and Roasts a Senator 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

It will air on television March 13, with historical footage and interviews about issues that continue to impact black Americans. Selma Hosts Its Own Civil Rights Concert 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

He consigned the material to Swann, he said, because in his remote home, “the real important historical stuff got to be a burden.” Art of Internment Camps Will Head to Auction 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Or the longer, historical view that restaurants generally are getting louder and louder. Is Restaurant Noise a Crime? Our Critic Mounts a Ringing Defense 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

In tracing the final years of the Romanov dynasty, Billington sets the stage for 1917 and puts Lenin’s revolutionary ideology into historical context. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

The genre-defying historical novel can come in the form of a crime novel, a romance, a political thriller, a biography or a literary novel. The Edinburgh literature festival that could change history 2013-04-11T15:28:06Z

I think the historical context is immediately clear. Ramy Youssef on highlighting anti-Blackness: "The conversation about race in America is very binary" 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

They said he referred to Thomas Cromwell as a historical parallel of sorts to his own experience in private conversations. Stephen K. Bannon leaves Breitbart after blowup over comments in Trump book 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

It hinted at the wisdom both of old civilisations and of France, the national embodiment of universal truth born of historical trauma. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Alexandre Dumas, regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist of all time, initially made his name — and the first of several fortunes — as a playwright. Newly translated, a sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers’ is as fresh as ever 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Because of its vast holdings, Mr. Campbell said, he envisions presenting contemporary and modern art in a historical context, exploring subjects and ideas culled from different centuries, countries, cultures and sensibilities. The Met Plans to Occupy the Whitney?s Uptown Site 2011-05-11T17:48:04Z

“Historical fashion informs contemporary fashion, and contemporary fashion enlivens historical fashion.” Andrew Bolton Chosen to Lead the Met’s Costume Institute 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a difficult, often rewarding collection that plays out something like an electroacoustic opera, using trenchant words and queasy sounds to diagnose the ills of a contemporary racial dystopia, and to outline its historical precedents. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Needless to say, after a decade of creating content with The 1491s, I did not imagine I'd find myself writing historical fiction for television. "The Native characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer on reclaiming Native narratives 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

The streets are filled with historical sites, such as the birthplaces of the writer François-René de Chateaubriand, the founder of Romanticism, and of Canadian explorer Jacques Cartier. See the light: Instead of joining the throngs on Mont Saint-Michel, go to Saint-Malo 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The symbolism is glaringly obvious but poignant nevertheless, as their blindness allegorizes a deep-seated obliviousness to historical reality. Art Review: ‘Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi’ at Museum of Modern Art 2013-01-10T21:33:58Z

There are countless cultural, economic and historical differences between the US and the UK that suggest we are not at immediate risk of chronic food insecurity on this scale. Food poverty: The American Way 2013-05-08T13:56:01Z

And Foursquare began using historical checkin data to help inform current decisions. Meet your future memory aid: The internet 2013-09-12T16:15:00Z

Surrounded by lovingly detailed people and animals, and punctuated throughout by gold, it’s a rousing mix of contemporary realism and historical fantasy. Review: ‘Maestà,’ Piecing Together Part of a Lost Legacy 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Still, Marlantes’s idiosyncratic approach is to his credit: “Deep River” is an engrossing and commanding historical epic about one immigrant family’s shifting fortunes. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

That may be from wanting to write about the historical past as it connects to the present without being limited by mere fact. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

An accomplished writer, Rennie built the songs from a series of essays collected in a picture book, also entitled “Wilderness” – a mix of zoological and historical research, folklore and metaphor. Handsome Family sing 'language of dreams' 2013-07-12T16:06:00Z

That was due in great part to the grim sets, which have none of the historical detail of the Franco Zeffirelli production. Opera Review: ‘Tosca’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-12-12T23:23:47Z

In February, the European Jewish Congress also called on HarperCollins to rescind the book, and to “distance itself from the book’s controversial historical claims.” Dutch Publisher of ‘The Betrayal of Anne Frank’ Halts Publication 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Even worse, Mortensen was a West Coast leader of the Pictorialist school, manipulating his images at will with brush and razor blade, adding texture to portraits and epic historical tableaux. Pictorialist William Mortensen, reviled by Ansel Adams, gets new respect 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

On the long historical walkabout of some 60 collection galleries spread over three floors, there’s pretty much something for everyone. MoMA Reboots With ‘Modernism Plus’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The fate of Kepler’s mother is a matter of historical record, but Galchen arrives at something the facts can’t catch — the exhaustion, the bone-weariness of fighting such misogyny year after year. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

Once again, references to historical benchmarks — including 9/11, both Iraq wars, the financial crisis of 2007-08, and Hurricane Sandy — anchor the novel in time. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

I am not a terrific fan of historical novels. Review: Francis Spufford’s First Novel Is a Swashbuckling Tale 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the premiere episode, Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Carol Burnett and many others describe how groundbreaking dramas, historical events and sitcoms on television shaped who we are today. TV highlights: ‘The Sixties’ premieres on CNN

Get carried away by another historical novel bound by music, Madeleine Thien’s tragic epic set in Vancouver and China, “Do Not Say We Have Nothing.” O Canada! What Should I Read? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

And the region’s Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people, have hailed the discovery of these non-East Asian mummies as proof of their own historical claims. Exhibition Review: Another Stop on a Long, Improbable Journey 2011-02-20T21:00:36Z

Such fastidious historical packaging shows the influence of Weeds’ partner at Reel to Real, Zev Feldman, who is well-known for issuing deluxe packages of rare live jazz, including two previous sets from The Penthouse. New releases of vintage jazz recordings show Seattle jazz haunt The Penthouse in its prime 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

But for him there was no definitive point of arrival, only the ongoing exploration, guided by constant reexamination and historical insight, of what he called “the mystery” of great art. CD reviews: Harnoncourt’s last Beethoven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

“We were hunted down and overrun, and this is all part of our historical trauma that we still carry around,” said Ramon Riley, cultural resources director for the White Mountain Apache Tribe in southwest Arizona. Apaches’ Dispute With American Museum of Natural History 2013-08-19T22:28:01Z

While I was definitely more inclined to opt in to a public television historical program, film-maker Ken Burns’s nine-night masterpiece managed to engage and enrich everyone. Ken Burns's The Civil War: America's greatest documentary rides again 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

We set up on a bench facing the Old Treasury Building, the oldest public building in the city, as the walking tours we’d spotted earlier trooped through intermittently, spouting historical anecdotes. New parents take baby steps toward family travel with a three-day getaway to Annapolis 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

But even the Anonymous hackers agree that today’s Klan is something of a historical relic, like Civil War nostalgia on the dark side. Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can’t face the past, and it’s poisoning our future 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

We will feature selected images in print — and our staff will supply some historical or cultural tidbits about your view. What can you see out your window? We invite readers to share their views — literally — during quarantine. 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

And the assassin persona is, well, less concerned with the historical basis of double consciousness. Critic’s Notebook: Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks 2014-01-27T22:50:06Z

Along with his historical analysis, we hear personal recollections from this often-reticent leader. Review: ‘Rabin in His Own Words’ Fleshes Out an Israeli Politician, With Limits 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

It is also an allegory for the "forgetting" of colonising powers, the slave trade, eugenics and the historical horrors of science where black people were used for experimentation. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

The essays tease out the simmering historical and cultural roots of Haiti's Carnival tradition. Ben Fountain's top 10 books about Haiti 2013-05-15T14:34:17Z

Emphasizing the lack of historical progress for black citizens, the film then offers a quote from the 1857 Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott case that denied slaves basic human rights. “This is what democracy looks like”: Why Black Lives Matter is a struggle to save our democracy 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

What sparks you to want to write a novel about a particular place and time or specific historical characters? ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z

They wonder why no use was made of a supposed escape clause from the rules that allows records to be kept for historical and statistical research. Ruskin archive: dust-up 2012-10-28T23:24:13Z

The result is a musical artifact rife with historical interest but otherwise pretty heavy sledding. Review: Howard Davies Play Explores Ukraine's Troubles in Wake of 1917 Revolution 2010-04-13T11:49:00Z

The factoid doesn’t get much respect as a source of genuine historical insight, but Harvey deploys small scraps of knowledge to great effect. Meet the Man Who Spun the Media, Scammed Followers and Named Himself King 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

It was arguably his finest work, one that artfully appropriates historical facts into a personal saga, without twisting them. Analysis: Mike Daisey meant well, but lost his way in 'Agony' 2012-03-19T21:37:03Z

He also appreciates Dillon's historical significance; it's where Lewis and Clark found the Shoshone natives and negotiated supplies for their crossing of the Rocky Mountains. America's Prettiest Towns 2010-04-15T21:00:00Z

"Fly" might be best appreciated as a vibrantly executed historical exhibit. 'Fly' smartly and briskly tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen at Pasadena Playhouse 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Harper is the most pro-monarchy Canadian leader since the 1950s, and his ambition is to foster a national identity that is more conservative and more aware of its historical roots. Canada unveils flag for Prince William 2011-06-29T17:34:08Z

We weren't friends or associates, but we recognized each other's talent for regurgitating the historical events that Mr. Moulds told us to remember. Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

We’re in a literary period where historical fiction, once regarded as the realm of bodice rippers, is now occupied and elevated by serious writers.  Betrayal, collusion, spying: Exploring a swing from extreme left to right 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

What he does is filter his feelings either through a fictional narrative or a historical event. New band of the day - Joe Banfi (No 1,426) 2013-01-08T16:10:44Z

Capturing Mr. Wilson's so-called "American Century Cycle" of plays in a new medium is a "historical undertaking," Ms. Romero stated in a press release. ArtsBeat: New York Public Radio to Record August Wilson's Plays 2012-11-14T21:59:46Z

Schwartz told me that she understands the impulse to sex up historical women. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

The spectrum of historical fiction is therefore not as simple as "accurate = good" and "inaccurate = bad". The lying art of historical fiction 2010-08-06T15:44:00Z

Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad” boldly reimagines a historical moment: What if, the book asks, the titular pathway to freedom for American slaves was an actual railroad that was literally underground? The National Book Awards Longlist: Fiction 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The festival opened last night with Ava DuVernay’s powerfully and passionately insightful documentary “13th,” a brilliant analysis of the historical roots of the politics behind today’s scourge of mass incarceration. A Documentary About the Life and Tragic Death of the Great Jazz Trumpeter Lee Morgan 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Unlike her other solo albums, it’s full of specifics: a bus route, a highway, the sense of a historical moment. Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

The intervening years have altered the way we look at historical characters onstage, from Alexander Hamilton to Princess Diana. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

Büchner, a German playwright, wrote it at age 21, using the historical sources available to him in the 19th century. Review: A Far-From-Revolutionary ‘Danton’s Death’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

In its pretty, almost hapless way, the book depicts a curious warp in a great historical arc. Noticed: What Would Che Say? 2011-07-27T18:59:05Z

Built pell-mell, the city lies thinly on the ground, radiating out from a small historical downtown and business district into hilly suburbs. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z

Obviously narratives like the Modern’s omit many worthy insider artists, but outsider art might be the shock to the system that would finally break this linear historical account. American Folk vs. Academic Art 2013-01-31T13:00:00Z

“There are these amazing moments when I go to a historical place and think to myself, when was the last time someone was wearing this outfit in this place?” Some travelers are dressing the part when they visit historic locations 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

There's a decent ratio of historical context to fast edits of arrows piercing flesh, but the story of the castle is at least as interesting an engineering tale as it is a military one. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z

“I just think it hit the wrong note in the wrong historical period.” Why Didn’t Steven Spielberg Get an Oscar Nomination for ‘The Post’? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Cowan's first foray into historical fiction takes place in 1916, when the unnamed town is waiting to receive a trainload of wounded soldiers from the front. Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan – review 2013-02-22T21:45:01Z

In such a historical period of homogenization, in terms of both ideas and appearance, to maintain one’s own individuality is the greatest value.” Valentino returning to the men?s wear catwalk 2012-01-13T14:39:08Z

Known for using actors to portray real immigrants on its historical properties, it is continuing the practice virtually. Digital Field Trips: Museum Adventures Abound for Kids 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Each sits majestically in its own bay here, the size commensurate with the event’s historical weight. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“People enjoy historical drama more if they’re legitimately transported into the time,” Mr. Bruce said. ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns to PBS 2014-01-02T13:00:01Z

At its most basic, the reason for Berlin's popularity among British artists is the combination of a generously funded cultural infrastructure, the city's rich and fascinating historical texture and, crucially, cheap property. British artists flock to set up home in liberating Berlin 2011-03-16T23:30:01Z

They resettled in Copenhagen, where they built a life suspended between cultures and marked by the whims of historical forces. Review | At the Guggenheim, a memoir about America, colonialism and desire 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The attempts to invest Elizabeth with a little overly modern-sounding feminist resolve fall short, though, and are reminders that historical fiction rarely knows what to do with the little ladies left at home. ‘Outlaw King’ Review: Bloody Medieval Times and Guts 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

It’s now a popular tourist attraction of historical gravity and artistic kitsch. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

And I’m not just talking about historical figures and activist women — we need to applaud them and appreciate them. Malala takes her passions to the small screen with Apple 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

The History series predictably sensationalizes and overdramatizes case investigations and the historical figures involved, adding many story elements that simply never happened. ‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Her consistency of dress was a sign of reliability in the face of global change, a physical expression of her job as a living historical symbol and a tool wielded with precision, aforethought. Queen Elizabeth II and the Shape of 20th-Century Power Dressing 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Molly Shannon has had a long, prolific career — and she returns to the big screen next week in the historical comedy “Wild Nights With Emily.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Native Son’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

And as with any self-respecting historical novelist, accuracy is important. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Haimovitz played the suites with an older baroque-style bow, and his articulations were varied and detached, reflecting an awareness of the historical performance movement. Review | Cellist challenges listeners in museum concerts 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

Barely a block away from the blue-chip Luhring Augustine, which mounts similar historical shows, Clearing is also another sign of how Bushwick has gained serious traction as a gallery district. Review: Eduardo Paolozzi’s Sculpture and Prints Visit Brooklyn 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Joshua Harmon’s “Prayer for the French Republic,” a play about a family grappling with contemporary and historical antisemitism in France, will transfer to Broadway this winter. ‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Transferring to Broadway 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Winter days are better for visiting the free Island County Historical Museum to learn about the island’s original Native American tribes, and to visit the shops and galleries in the historical buildings along Front Street. Why wait? Avoid traffic with this guide for a day trip to Whidbey Island in winter. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Our historical memory of epidemics is short, and that’s natural,” said Jessica Play, who oversees historical quarantine stations on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Rather, theirs is a historical evil: These vampires are white Southerners whose cause is the enslavement of human beings and not states’ rights. Movie Review: ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ 2012-06-21T22:02:49Z

“I want to see historical figures represented, because these days we need to see people who look like us in the city’s monuments.” A Monument Honoring Brooklyn Abolitionists Stalls Under Scrutiny 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

The real figure of historical interest in “Décadence” is the Empress Dowager Cixi, the de facto ruler of the Middle Kingdom for 47 years. Books: Memoir (or Is It?) of Sex and Opium 2011-03-30T12:00:05Z

Editor’s note:  Know a favorite restaurant, historical site, unique museum or other Northwest attraction worth miles of driving, just for itself? Worth the Trip: Olympia’s food producers prosper at new downtown market 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

There are many 'historical' or history-based shows that romanticize powerful men in sexual/marriage relationships with women who were actually not of an age to consent, even if they were 'willing.' "House of the Dragon" will not "depict sexual violence" 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

Hughes, equally well known in Britain for her popular historical documentaries, gives us an even heftier opus written with a classicist’s linguistic precision. A City Where East Meets West and the Past Is Always Present 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Playing the manservant, Bennett, Tim Wallers lets rip with a degree of social and historical consciousness unavailable to the household help in “Earnest.” Review: ‘Travesties’ and Finding New Depth in Stoppard 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The Walter Scott prize for historical fiction, worth £25,000, has shortlisted seven authors for its inaugural award. Booker rivals clash again on Walter Scott prize shortlist 2010-04-01T12:06:00Z

One of the main goals of historical lexicography is finding antedatings, as instances that push back the earliest known use of a term are called. Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Following that success, Breslin said the historical figure she really wanted to write about was da Vinci. Theresa Breslin: bringing the past to life 2010-09-02T15:44:00Z

“No documents, no history,” a manual of historical study commanded in 1898. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

So long ago—a historical nanosecond after Watergate and the fall of Saigon. The Chaotic Magic of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

The podcast takes a potentially dangerous risk with two episodes imagining how historical events, like the 1919 passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, would be handled by broadcasters. Podcast revisits how the biggest stories unfolded on TV news 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

Life-size sculptures made of wire mesh offer ghostly depictions of an American Indian, a frontier woman and a hippie as vanished characters, implying some kind of historical continuum. Art Review: In West Chelsea, Sculptures Speak in Dialects 2010-06-01T22:51:00Z

Arikha's bright tones and crisp lines inevitably invite comparison with classical and academic painting, in which he developed a strong historical interest. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z

Guadeloupe is just around the corner from Venezuela, and I got interested in him as a historical person. ‘I Would Love to Sing Lucia’: A Male Soprano Comes Into His Own 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Australian novelist Carey will learn later Tuesday whether he has pulled off a hat trick with his historical novel "Parrot and Olivier in America." Winner of Booker Prize to be announced in London 2010-10-12T12:01:00Z

Yet the author also has a delicate literary and historical sensibility. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The curator, Elizabeth Breiner, begins with historical images and information, including what are believed to be the earliest photographs of American slaves. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Despite the obsession with historical detail, there were plenty of re-enactors who brought air mattresses, propane burners, flashlights and jugs of Gatorade. The Decline of the Civil War Re-enactor 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

It would be captured again, if fleetingly, in the sultry "BUtterfield 8," the sweltering "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and the fitting "Cleopatra," surely her historical counterpart. Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z

Johnson: He seems to be facing an existential crisis – searching for a Black historical narrative that predates the transatlantic slave trade. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Scott praised what he called Ross’s “unusual respect for historical truth,” and wrote that he does “a good job of balancing the factual record with the demands of dramatic storytelling.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Thing About Pam’ and the Critics Choice Awards 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Like the first season of “The Terror,” which followed a doomed 19th-century Arctic expedition, the second invites allegorical connections between its central menace and its historical circumstances. ‘The Terror’ Summons the Ghosts of a Real-Life Horror Story 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, there is a lack of critical historical analysis. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

The biggest prize of the night went to harrowing historical drama 12 Years a Slave, which won best film and the leading actor prize for Chiwetel Ejiofor. Baftas 2014: Certainties and surprises 2014-02-17T03:42:19Z

The underground network of sympathisers that exists to get mutants over the border to Mexico recalls the historical Underground Railroad that helped slaves escape to free states and Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries. Losing the X Factor: is it time for the X-Men universe to stop expanding? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

There is historical evidence for this – he points to analyses of parish marriage registers from an area of Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries. The dating gap: why the odds are stacked against female graduates 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

This focus on early works catches the artists when they were young, feeding off the creative energies of their comrades and responding most nakedly to their historical times. ‘What Nerve!’ at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

That’s my cue to suggest “Timeless,” the plucky NBC time-traveling adventure series with just the right amount of conspiratorial puzzlement, historical intrigue and romantic entanglement, without the blood spatter and raw language, etc. Perspective | Summer is the right time for those TV shows you’ve heard about, but never got around to watching 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

It was a good night for 1980s funny men doing serious historical documentaries about major global conflicts. Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army; The Lost Submarine of WWI: a Time Team Special – TV review 2013-07-08T06:00:08Z

While heritage properties are unlikely to embrace the more unsanitary ways ice cream used to be eaten, serving up historical recipes gives visitors a chance to savor a new sensory layer of the past. The strange history of ice cream flavors, from brown bread to Parmesan and paté 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

“Enemies” views the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ relationship with the executive branch purely in historical terms, although certain retellings of stories may elicit a gasp or a whistle from the viewer. The jagged hindsight of “The Clinton Affair”: 20 years later, it looks like a different story 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

He employs them in settings that are occasionally abstract but more often highly specific, and both historical and contemporary. Review: James Cicatko draws on dark history for 'Conversations with Messerschmidt' 2011-03-17T20:05:20Z

France classified it as a historical monument in the 1980s. | A Le Corbusier Rooftop Gets a New Life as an Arts Space 2013-06-07T22:18:36Z

Nor is the difficulty solely due to Cosby's historical contributions to Hollywood and African Americans, including breaking barriers for Black performers and advocating for improved educational opportunities for Black children. The excellent "We Need to Talk About Cosby" skilfully opens a necessary, uncomfortable conversation 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

Bioarchaeology may dispel some beliefs about our past while confirming others, but the field would be all but lost without the historical record as a starting place. An archaeologist looks at our lives in cities, over millenniums 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Beneath every historical interlude of hedonism lies a foundation of nihilism, and the Deltas’ gleeful anti-everything ethic looks frightfully familiar in a modernity reaching a critical mass of disgusted cynicism. Animal House at 40: why the slobs v snobs comedy remains essential 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Quite a few people collect both historical and contemporary works, so they are tied together somewhat,” he says, citing 85-year-old Western painter Howard Terpning as an example. A Multi-Million Dollar Western Art Bonanza 2013-03-18T17:22:08Z

Ms. Simmons certainly doesn’t want people to stop reading; as part of the exhibition, the museum is distributing contemporary and historical books on, among other topics, a history of Indigenous people in the United States. Words and Actions: Queens Museum Shows About Seeking Racial Justice 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

The show's editor Ewan Vinnicombe said the book about World War Two was "witty, clever and gives the reader an insight into an important historical event". Tony Robinson wins kids book prize 2014-03-06T13:08:59Z

Setting up this broader context would require expanding the notion of interactive history, moving beyond the limits of the historical village and beyond, too, the limits of technological sensation. Theme Park Review: Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle 2011-06-21T17:14:18Z

The film is full of fascinating historical footage of runway shows, the Palace nightclub, the Opium perfume launch and ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire dancing in a spectacular pink flower costume created by Saint Laurent. 'L'Amour Fou' centers on the partner of late designer Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-23T15:07:04Z

There’s a sense of historical unity in the saxophone playing of J.D. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

That act can unify contemporary themes with historical grounding, inviting the viewer to consider artworks as living objects bearing renewed meaning through the interpretative material presented in the gallery. It’s the year of Rembrandt again, to the delight of museum audiences 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

The era is well documented, and when Silva weaves certain historical details into her story, she tends to spotlight them. A Fan Letter to Charles Dickens 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

It also led to the author being considered a historical novelist, which both was and wasn’t the case.  Remembering E.L. Doctorow, great American mythologist 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

His legacy continues in the shape of a thriving and outward-looking historical profession, a legacy the more impressive for emanating from a man uninterested in founding any kind of school of his own. The history man 2012-10-01T14:14:01Z

The result is an institution that exists in a liminal space, attempting to be both specific to but greater than a singular racial experience, both historical and savvy to the present moment. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

These are real historical characters, which is the most horrifying thing. Lucy Lawless Explains Why 'Salem' Is a New Kind of TV Horror 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Solar energy system prices are at historical lows in all segments of the market, the report said. U.S. solar takes hit from Trump tariffs but is cheaper than ever:... 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

In Gerster’s view, Berlin’s unresolved past taints its bustling charm and glossy serenity, as well as every familiar course of practical action—yet his movie veers toward the historical kitsch that he satirizes. Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

In Butler’s hands, the slaves and slave owners Dana meets — and befriends, nurtures, protects and betrays — become individuals rather than historical abstractions. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

Amaks Premier Hotel, a comfortable modern spot in the historical center across the street from the Kama River. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z

Shakespeare played up the violence, bloodshed and destruction of the French campaign, which his main historical source, Holinshed's Chronicles, did not. Kenneth Branagh's Henry V: right royal entertainment 2011-07-28T08:00:00Z

Wenders doesn’t explode the film-noir framework of the movie, nor does he explore its historical origins or its implications, whether aesthetic or political. Where Wim Wenders Went Wrong 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Serious jazz on the steel pan — jazz imbued with the historical vocabulary of swing, bebop and the blues, and not, as Provost puts it, simply “improvised music” — may not be crazy. In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Yet a glance into the book reveals that the movie departs in important ways from the historical record that Berg, in his superb book, establishes. The Odd Factual Gaps in Michael Grandage’s “Genius” 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Bring Up the Bodies is just as good as Wolf Hall, the product of a still-consuming passion for the transformation of historical detail into darkly vivid fiction. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z

The rise in subscriptions follows the success earlier this year of new historical drama "The Borgias" starring Jeremy Irons, and dysfunctional family series "Shameless". Showtime adds 2 million subscribers, expands original shows 2011-08-04T18:31:47Z

Among his biggest initiatives: pressing the Georgia Historical Society to create historical markers for certain influential African-Americans. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Throw in a Greek chorus of talking wooden dolls, and you get one of the most fascinating historical narratives I’ve ever read. ‘The Exchange of Princesses’ review: One of European history’s weirdest schemes 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

But “Lincoln in the Bardo” is no solemn work of historical fiction. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Towles’s solution is wry understatement that extends to a series of historical footnotes. ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a charming reminder of what it means to be classy 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

As a Grade I-listed historical site, it's one of the few parts of Hong Kong that has barely changed since the film was made in 1973.• Top 10 films set in Hong Kong 2012-07-04T11:00:00Z

“That sculpture was installed on 125th Street as a way of linking the historical event of the Underground Railroad with the creative fluorescence of the Harlem Renaissance,” Abbaspour said. Illuminating Toni Morrison’s Manuscripts at Princeton 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

More a magpie collector of historical motifs than a visionary integrator or innovator, he was in step with Victorian-era taste for exotic clutter. Peeking Into the Gilded Age at the Met 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It has deep implications, historical implications in the black community from beauty standards to professional opportunities to how families have treated one another.” Colorism reveals many shades of prejudice in Hollywood 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The Radio and Television Supreme Board says Show TV was warned Wednesday for not showing the necessary sensitivity toward the privacy of historical figures. Turkey watchdog slams channel for sultan portrayal 2011-01-12T12:58:07Z

He then starred on Broadway in the David Mamet drama “Race” as a palate cleanser after “Boston Legal,” and counterbalanced Steven Spielberg’s historical drama “Lincoln” with a stint on the NBC comedy “The Office.” James Spader Prepares for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

There is a word in German for such a lack of a sense of history, “Geschichtsvergessenheit,” “historical obliviousness.” Readers react: A bittersweet farewell to Larry Wilmore's 'The Nightly Show' 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

There are some strong similarities between science fiction and historical fiction, but you also write fantasy, poetry, etc. Ursula K. Le Guin: Amazon has too much control over what books get published 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

“The objects are considered significant to the Museum’s collection for their historical connection to a major and unique campaign fought by the British Army in 1868 and were collected in good faith,” it said. British museum to return royal hair seized in Ethiopia 150 years ago 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

One was historical and ideological: Russian revolutionaries claimed to be the founders of the promised land prophesied by Karl Marx, a 19th-century Prussian-born philosopher. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

If we can't admit that works that make us uncomfortable can have historical and creative value, we're not giving them a fair artistic assessment. It's time to release Looney Tunes' racist cartoons 2010-10-15T20:01:00Z

"Finally," said not one single die-hard fan of FX's thriller "The Strain," "a bunch of historical background on vampires!" 'The Strain' recap: Setrakian and strigoi origins in 'The Runaways' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

For decades now art historians and curators have considered it an important historical document. Inside Art: Van de Velde War Painting From 1600s Goes on Sale 2012-06-28T21:19:04Z

She might be considered a little old-fashioned in style now, but her well-researched historical settings give her scenes authenticity, while her dialogue develops character and enlists the sympathy of the reader. Theresa Breslin's top 10 books about the Spanish inquisition 2010-03-24T12:48:00Z

Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, said that they were “thinking more actively about ways to connect their historical collections with contemporary art.” To Draw Viewers, Museums Show That What’s Old Is New Again 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

There is a fair amount of attention paid to historical accuracy given that the show is dealing with characters that actually existed. Houdini & Doyle: new show can't free itself from shackles of old formula 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

But after you do the research it's no longer intellectual any more, no longer just historical record – you feel it in your bones. Django Unchained wins over black audience despite Spike Lee criticism 2013-01-03T10:51:08Z

President Catherine Allgor says: “The great thing about historical societies nowadays is that we don’t wait for it to become history. We collect in the present, and this seemed like a historical moment.” Historical societies across the U.S. are crowdsourcing pandemic time capsules 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

The problem is in definition and in, as it happens, the historical timeline. How Sean Wilentz's history 'The Politicians and the Egalitarians' resonates 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

There are plenty of depictions of gods and monsters in the galleries, but portraits of historical figures are more rare. Highlights From Asia Week 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

He will next be seen in the historical drama Twelve Years a Slave, which marks his third collaboration with director Steve McQueen after Hunger and Shame. Michael Fassbender to play Macbeth 2013-04-29T15:03:04Z

He felt that images were viral: They couldn’t be held within their discrete, historical containers. This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

To Mr. Woody, a scruffy, gray-goateed former Green Beret who saw duty in Vietnam, photographing starlets teetering out of a club in the wee hours was not a frivolous pursuit but a historical imperative. E. L. Woody, ‘King of the Paparazzi,’ Dies at 70 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Mantel’s critically acclaimed historical novel is a sequel to “Wolf Hall,” which also won the Booker. Hilary Mantel Up for 3rd Major Literary Award 2013-03-13T10:03:17Z

The flu epidemic makes a brief appearance in “True Grit,” and it’s exactly the sort of historical subject upon which he could converse with the fluency and anecdote of someone who’d survived it personally. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Coffin said that she chose the Jazz Age as a historical concept tying together trends in art and popular culture from the end of World War I into the 1930s. A Jazz Age Exhibition With a Syncopated Sweep 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rucker, who is in residence at V.C.U., working with students, is interspersing historical artifacts related to the Ku Klux Klan with his refashioned Klansmen robes. New Contemporary Art Institute Reverberates in Richmond’s Historic Landscape 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

More than anything, he considers himself a “historical painter.” The most famous pro-Trump artist in the U.S. has moved into his ‘Mueller’ phase. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

There also is a bilingual book version of the exhibition, featuring additional portraits, oral histories, historical essays and panoramic photographs by Wright. Conjuring Spain on a journey through the American Southwest 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

She reads and discusses her new historical novel “The Accursed,” set in Princeton in the early 1900s and featuring Woodrow Wilson and the Devil himself. A&E highlights: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful,’ Flogging Molly, Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-07T20:22:37Z

More precisely: Your historical heroes would have seen the world very differently from you and me. You would’ve hated your heroes: Why history’s great men seem so morally deficient 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

A historical note: Edgar Allan Poe gave his last public reading here shortly before his death in 1849. Take an architectural walking tour of Norfolk 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

McCarthy, an assistant professor at Harvard, draws on a broad array of cultural and historical influences — from Kara Walker to Nas to Sappho — in these essays, which he began writing in 2014. 16 New Books to Watch For in March 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

There's a historical backdrop of Australia's discrimination against its Aboriginal natives, but first-time director Wayne Blair keeps the tone light. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-03-21T00:23:11Z

In this book, a memoir, she brings the two “truths” together – the personal and the collective, the artistic and the historical – and the result is a heartening coming-of-age story for the retired set. Review | An aspiring artist finds out it’s never too late to start over 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

There’s an elaborate historical backstory involving the property’s long-ago proprietor, a baron whose misdeeds caused the local peasantry to burn down his château on the very site where the institute is now housed. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

To others, the Bible is a historical record that provides an intriguing insight into war and sex in the ancient Middle East. The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-05-04T13:00:01Z

More than anything, though, he hated Darwin’s views of historical biogeography, of the means by which living things had acquired their particular distributions on the Earth. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z

Off the back of it, I got more screenwriting work on historical dramas. My inspiration for The Liability: Cohen and Tate and its brilliant screenwriter 2013-05-14T10:23:00Z

That decision seemed like a sudden reversal, but it came after an unsuccessful yearlong effort to bring the mini-series in line with the historical record. Dramatizing Camelot 2011-01-17T22:32:30Z

Based on historical and recent travel trends, INRIX, a global mobility analytics company, and AAA predict travel times in the most congested cities will be up to four times longer than normal. Thanksgiving traffic predicted to be four times worse than normal in major cities 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

“Euphoria” is King’s first work of historical fiction. ‘Euphoria,’ a novel based on Margaret Mead, by Lily King

Jazz Camp focuses on rhythmic instruments to counteract the historical relegation of women in jazz to singing, which was often cast as “entertainment” rather than the serious art practiced by men. Girls Are Outnumbered in Jazz. At This Summer Camp, They Run the Show. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

An inscription on a piece does not necessarily mean it will not be of interest on the silver market, especially if a connection could be made to a historical event. What to Know When Selling the Family Silver 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

“The film just tells the historical story and the personal story of the war. I didn’t get the impression there’s any ax to grind.” Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Tackle the Vietnam War 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

The council approved a historical oversight committee to ensure “accuracy and authenticity” when it authorized the mayor to enter into a lease agreement with Cook’s foundation. Muscogee dismayed by nearly naked statue of Georgia ancestor 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

The historical objects are not the focus of the show, but are here to reflect sources of inspiration for the living artists. ‘Disguise: Masks and Global African Art,’ Where Tradition Meets Avant-Garde 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 50s, they campaigned to pass laws restricting the use of the flag solely to historical and commemorative purposes. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

Dripping with historical connections to the royals, the chapel at the castle contains the remains of 10 British monarchs, including the queen’s father George VI along with those of her mother and sister Princess Margaret. Meghan Markle to follow in thousand years of UK royal history at... 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The fusing of the two film cultures has sometimes made for bland kung fu and historical epics that have appalled critics. 'Bodyguards and Assassins' dominates HK awards 2010-04-19T02:16:00Z

The film is interesting not only as a historical document of internet communities, but also for the innovative format of placing strangers’ YouTube videos one after another in quick succession. YouTube ‘found footage’ docs: urban legends in their own words 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

“A melodrama in the morning, a historical drama in the afternoon, a comedy at night,” Mr. Paik said. Film: A Fine Balance: The Quiet Life of a Star Actress 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z

President Donald Trump’s routine alterations of the historical narrative, which seem to stem in equal measure from ignorance and ill intent, are ridiculed by the media even as the media reproduces them. The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

The filming of “Bisbee ’17,” a documentary about what happened July 12, 1917, was a history lesson for residents recruited to play historical figures in the production that weds documentary and collective performance. Film airing on PBS recalls city’s dark deportation history 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

I was going to give him one line only, to give it a kind of historical provenance as to what the people were doing in the caves. Book Talk: Jim Crace says last novel a generous gift 2013-02-14T11:14:29Z

Even historical dramas shy away from depicting the kind of marital abuse that was, depending on the time period, legal and common. Most important thing on TV this year could be this Super Bowl PSA 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

The historical lens that’s playfully imposed throws into relief the unresolved nature of these still boisterous conflicts. When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

He called this week from his parents’ home in Southern France to discuss intimidating co-stars and the perils of playing a fictional character — as opposed to one of the many historical figures — on “Boardwalk Empire.” ArtsBeat Blog: The New Kid in Town: Charlie Cox on 'Boardwalk Empire' 2011-09-30T16:23:46Z

Some of both was happening on Friday: incursions into hardcore and historical re-enactments of it. Review: From Sick Feeling and Obliterations, Differing Takes on Hardcore 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

By enlarging the original Polaroids the surfaces gain a gauzy tactility that recalls historical still life painting. Beyond the Book Club, An Artist’s To-Do List 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Muslims and Jews are so close that they both believe that the same piece of land is their historical home. My month of being Jewish 2010-04-08T07:00:00Z

In every corner of this historical fiction is a new surprise. The Ring of Solomon by Jonathon Shroud - review 2013-05-13T17:00:00Z

Always in Season is controversial too in its central framing in which the death of Lennon is linked unquestioningly to America’s historical lynching. Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The story is fictional, but Mr. Jude said he drew on the historical record. ‘Aferim!,’ an Oscar Contender, Explores the Enslavement of the Roma 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s easier to describe the historical importance and immense influence of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 film “The Conformist” than to describe what it’s about, or to discuss the peculiar experience of watching it in 2014. “The Conformist”: An unsettling political masterpiece returns 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

There’s an expressly retrospective historical tone to the entire film, as established in its first segment, in which Godard revisits Europe’s political crises of the twentieth century. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

As time went by, she increasingly turned to historical settings. British novelist Beryl Bainbridge dies at 75 2010-07-02T12:35:00Z

It also offers historical information and artifacts from some of Iowa’s historical movie theaters including drive-in theaters. Museum exhibit on Iowa’s role in movies to debut 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

The site is now a national historical park and a memorial to Father Damien and all who cared for the patients. A Hawaiian Island Where Everybody Knows Your Name 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Vague notions of the region were replaced by what I gleaned from museums and historical markers as well as from residents’ stories of their great-grandparents’ struggles as settlers. Frugal Traveler: What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland 2013-08-28T21:32:04Z

The author Alice Winn was procrastinating, digging through the archives of the English boarding school she had attended, when she came across a historical treasure trove: copies of school’s newspaper from the early 20th century. A Debut Novel Creates a World From Pages Taken From the Past 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

Habibi said she was told to address the instructors as “master,” which made her uncomfortable due to the historical weight of the title. Sommeliers will no longer use only the title 'master,' wine organization says 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

These and other historical themes are still around as the series progresses, but the attempts to merge them with the personal stories of the characters are not exactly seamless. Review: Amazon’s ‘Last Tycoon’ Is Slick but Short on Passion 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The show is not meant to be a historical document but rather a snapshot of the past 20 years with an eye to the future and the challenges faced by the marginalized. Riot Grrrls stake a new space in 'Alien She' 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

A good place to start is Metro Pictures, where the past holds sway, and the historical progression is laid out in distinct segments. Art Review: Surfing Art at Nyehaus, Petzel and Metro Pictures 2010-07-22T21:52:00Z

Holliday's riveting work builds on that foundation and to some extent other historical predecessors. 'All the Flowers' turns blooms in LACMA artworks into a photogram bouquet of blue 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

In fact, that train running through tunnels deep below ground was just the first of several surreal elements insinuated into this work of historical fiction that drew on horrors from centuries of America’s troubled past. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

The Slave Wrecks Project helps coordinate searches for sunken slave ships and works on maritime archaeological research and historical recovery. A Smithsonian Museum Sharpens Focus on the History of Slavery 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds and pipe dreams. Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

But he’s feeling and intelligent and maybe the best white American filmmaker ever to consistently consider race and class as systemic, historical and personal matters. ‘Outbreak’ Was a Hit in 1995. Now We’re Living the Sequel. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

That does not obviate the necessity of detailed historical work on individual countries; rather, the two approaches complement each other. No fear to tread 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

And she's right: Anne Boleyn is a well-known and oft-maligned historical figure, whose most famous historical fiction portrayals don't exactly paint her in the best of lights. Candace Owens: If Black woman can play Anne Boleyn, white man should play Obama 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Is Karen’s predicament simply a historical one, or is there something specific to life as a woman now that you were trying to explore? “My narrator is starving, both literally and metaphorically”: Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman on anxiety and alienation in their new books 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Critical race theory, or C.R.T, argues that historical patterns of racism are ingrained in law and other modern institutions. Bans on Critical Race Theory Threaten Free Speech, Advocacy Group Says 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Speaking of massive ensemble casts, courtroom intrigue, historical inaccuracy and Presidential assassination conspiracies, the perfect storm of such stuff simply has to be Oliver Stone's "JFK." Liked 'The Conspirator'? More period courtroom drama from Scarecrow 2011-04-14T22:03:23Z

On Thursday, the historical 1869 landmarked school will reopen, entirely refurbished and partly restored to its original condition, and once again serving something close to its original educational purpose. Review | Planet Word, a new museum devoted to language, is a high-tech, feel-good experience 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Some letters read as if they were written as diaries for the historical record as much as for Ms. Pingeot. In François Mitterrand Letters, an Intimate Portrait of the Other Woman 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

His larger story, woven from court records, newspaper archives and historical monographs, is particularly unsettling for what it reveals about the deep roots of anti-Blackness in New York City’s law enforcement divisions. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

The historical, city-owned building was the storage site for the museum, which is located nearby. Conservators work on items damaged in Chinatown museum fire 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

To further spur interest in the medium, the fair offers special educational and historical programs for private, institutional and corporate collectors. A Focus on Photography at Madrid Fair 2010-05-06T10:00:00Z

Curtis said the hope was that the museum would show artefacts from richly historical sites, including the biblical city Ur of the Chaldees, birthplace of Abraham. Iraqi palace could show BM artefacts 2010-12-01T00:05:00Z

“By excusing historical racism, I defended it. . . . I am ashamed over how uninformed I was. I was so wrong.” ‘The Bachelor’ host Chris Harrison stepping aside after ‘uninformed’ interview 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” also came together on an astoundingly abbreviated schedule, debuting Friday, about nine months after the director decided he had to make the historical drama about the publication of the Pentagon Papers. How ‘The Post’ and ‘All the Money in the World’ got rushed to theaters so quickly 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

First, Perez redeems the very notion of melodrama from its pejorative uses; then he adduces its mode of “exaggeration” to the historical underpinnings and enduring core of the cinema. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It used to be the geographical centre of the town, too, but the sea has steadily eroded the coastline, and it now stands just yards behind the sea defences, a defiant historical relic. Peter Grimes on the Beach? Shiver me tenors! 2013-06-12T18:00:01Z

But the works themselves are quite lively, pulled off with verve and an ecumenical historical awareness. Art In Review: MARY WEATHERFORD: ‘Manhattan’ 2012-09-13T21:02:04Z

Kael was writing at a moment when political crises and historical shifts coincided with vast changes in the art and the business of movies. What to Stream This Weekend: “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” Through the Eyes of Pauline Kael 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Walls covered with maps and posters highlighting historical developments fill a corridor. The Violin Museum Is a Luthier’s Paradise 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The historical event that served as the catalyst for “A Child of Our Time” actually occurred in autumn. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z

“In recent years we’ve been blessed — or tormented, depending on your view — with two Emily Dickinson biopics of dubious historical fidelity, and the flagrantly fictionalized TV series ‘Dickinson.’ 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Teachers like the way Curtis explores family dynamics and social justice through historical fiction. In New Novels for Kids, Dangerous Journeys and Hockey Madness 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Her new book, “Great Circle,” is another surprising act of reinvention: a soaring work of historical fiction about a “lady pilot” in the mid-20th century. Review | Maggie Shipstead’s ‘Great Circle’ is a soaring work of historical fiction and a perfect summer novel 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

They like a serious film to win, and biopics of historical figures, like Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote. Why did Hustle flop at the Oscars? 2014-03-03T12:53:45Z

Though it predates modern brewing science and played a role in many historical beverages, spontaneous fermentation is now regarded as costly, inefficient and above all unpredictable. American Beers With a Pungent Whiff of Place 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

In a statement after Friday’s auction, Hatton said it can be difficult to assess the value of a specimen when there have been few historical parallels. T. Rex Skull Brings $6.1 Million at Sotheby’s, Well Below Estimate 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Harris also leaves out historical realities that might disrupt his narrative. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

This individual identity ignores the psychological, emotional and social “de-robing” that, over decades, results in black women sharing a collective historical identity. What does it mean to be white?: Dylann Roof, Rachel Dolezal and the ugly legacy of the Rhinelander case 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

A new feature film adaptation, due on Netflix Dec. 18, revives Wilson’s historical narrative in a contemporary moment when so much and so little has changed. Viola Davis and Company on ‘Ma Rainey’ and Chadwick Boseman’s Last Bow 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

It examines two swelling historical forces of the late 19th century to explain what led to the assassination of the president at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sept. 'The President and the Assassin': when ruthless capitalism and radical anarchy collided 2011-06-09T20:09:05Z

The play provides a historical touch point for our fractious political present. Onstage This Fall, the Enduring Friendship of Baldwin and Hansberry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

The two ships used for tours are actually modifications of 20th-century fishing vessels by the shipwright Leon Poindexter, using historical models. Museum Review: Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum Reopens With New Exhibits 2012-07-03T21:40:13Z

If you watch it and believe SNL wants you to believe the religious or historical Jesus is actually honestly a bloodthirsty killer, you need to watch a few more movies. “Djesus Uncrossed,” Grievance, and How Satire Actually Works 2013-02-19T22:42:23Z

But they all deal with connection - whether it’s romantic, ephemeral, historical, or painfully askew - and the intriguing results. October must-reads: "Call Me by Your Name" sequel to memoirs galore 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company or species. | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z

Finally, persuaded by Ms. van Kampen that it was the effect rather than strict historical authenticity that mattered, he agreed. Writing Her Way From Backstage to Broadway 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Little historical background is given after an initial audio clip from a 1969 interview conducted by the director’s father, a pioneering authority on the conflict. Movie Review: ‘The Last Christeros’ Recalls a Revolt Against Repression 2013-08-29T23:57:54Z

As part of the group tour package, travelers receive an Ancestry DNA test beforehand and consult with a genealogist who uses their test results, along with historical records, to educate them about their origins. Take a DNA Test, Then Buy an Airplane Ticket 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

For the most part, Mr. Mitre manages this deftly; the small-scale pettiness easily translates to a broader context, though non-Argentines may fail to grasp other historical implications. Movie Review: Santiago Mitre’s ‘Estudiante’ Is a Study of Behavior 2013-08-21T22:32:30Z

Narbonne’s historical quarter, a short walk away, is lined with lively cafes and boutiques, and centers on an excavated strip of Via Domitia, the antique Roman route that connected Rome to the Spanish peninsula. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The lives of three women who became spies in World War II provide the basis for this historical drama. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Blindspotting’ and ‘Betty’ 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Although the filmmakers insist that they stuck to historical facts in constructing “Detroit,” they did have to sprinkle Hollywood dust on parts of the story because some details of what happened remain murky. A White Director, the Police and Race in ‘Detroit’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The celebration of Sarah Baartman's features marks a departure from her historical image. Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

As an academic, Professor Saxton expanded her scope of historical inquiry, looking beyond middle-class white women to examine the lives of women of color, enslaved women and incarcerated women. Martha Saxton, Historian Who Explored Women’s Lives, Dies at 77 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

Inside, the creaky old floors of the commandant’s quarters lead to a hushed historical realm filled with images and documents of enslaved Native children who were stripped of their birth names and cultural identities. A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

The author of “The Hacienda” returns with a historical Gothic romance set in 1846, when two childhood friends, Nena and Néstor, cross paths at the start of the Mexican-American War. 24 Works of Fiction to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The new book is a lot grittier than other historical novels interested in similar territory. Why Colson Whitehead made the Underground Railroad real: “It’s fanciful and childish, but it also had many possibilities” 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

The production made terrific use of historical photographs and film and television footage — images that periodically splayed across a stylish white-fringe backdrop. Carmen de Lavallade recalled her time with the famous in a Kennedy Center show

She belongs to a proper historical epoch, which is now being studied in school now. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

And the questions get even trickier when these new tools are used to enhance understanding of the past and reanimate historical episodes. The slippery slope of using AI and deepfakes to bring history to life 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Yet there has been a more patriotic turn in the past decade in some of Russia’s museums, particularly its military and historical institutions. A Blockbuster Exhibition, Ripped in Two by Russia’s War 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

In McCarthy’s telling — lightened by her bright, cheerful drawings and endearingly big-eyed characters — this is less a tale of a historical wrong than a lesson in how one man unknowingly became a folk hero. Three great new children’s books 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Equally epic, if less historical, is David Ibata’s “A Man Has Got to Have a Code,” in which a woman hugs a bloodied swordsman; the painting suggests a gangsta-rap video directed by Kurosawa. In the galleries: 3 artists explore 3-D 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Thus, when reading a historical tale, a shadow of the present always falls upon the past. Review | Chris Bohjalian’s thriller ‘Hour of the Witch’ is historical fiction at its best 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Something in that historical moment urged me to continuously question and shift, both thematically, politically and linguistically, in terms of art. Connecting with people from different disciplines has always informed my work.” Vivan Sundaram, 79, Dies; a Pivotal, and Political, Figure in Indian Art 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Each section of the exhibit, which is divided by historical era, is prefaced with a quote from a 1943 book, “Chinese Life and Fashions,” by the Chinese novelist Eileen Chang. History of a Dress, Chinese Style 2010-08-30T12:10:00Z

The highly acclaimed trilogy of Chinese science-fiction novels collectively known as “Three-Body,” in which Earth is threatened with invasion by technologically superior aliens, is generally understood to reflect historical Chinese anxieties about Western domination. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Pat Barker on 'Toby's Room' 2012-11-08T13:00:46Z

Further, he wove in a bit of historical speculation: that the irascible Lully, composer to Louis, may have asserted his royal privilege to squelch a third act of “La Descente” in 1686. Critic’s Notebook: A Boston Biennial Celebrates the Baroque Tradition 2013-06-18T21:16:06Z

Sarah Dunant's Blood and Beauty, the fourth of her Italian historical novels and the initial instalment in what is planned to be a two-part saga, is her first since Mantel's colossal success. Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant – review 2013-05-02T09:00:01Z

While portraying an experience in the 1980s, the film transcends its historical moment through presenting pointed parallels with the geopolitics of our current moment. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

But how did Stewart function as a symptom of our historical moment? We all got addicted to Jon Stewart: How the “Daily Show’s” brilliance made us codependent with the crazies 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

House of Lards: Prequel historical fiction that chronicles the rise to power of Tip O’Neill. Style Invitational Week 1131: One man’s trash 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

“I knew it was the money shot, if you like. It was such an important historical moment.” Chelsea Manning director: 'She's a kind of punk rock figure for me' 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The Hush House is a former jet engine testing hangar at Bentwaters air base in Suffolk The Eastern Angles regional touring theatre company is celebrating its 30th anniversary by restaging one of its historical plays. Touring theatre's 30th birthday 2012-06-17T13:45:13Z

With historical artifacts and interactive installations, it encourages visitors to become history detectives, by exploring different periods. ?Making American Taste? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-10-16T20:57:17Z

Learning how to recognize it, seeing it in its manifold fullness and historical persistence, requires agility of mind and breadth of learning. Perspective | Lonnie Bunch isn’t afraid to address white supremacy. What else will that change for the Smithsonian? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

He is falsely labeled as anti-Bolshevik and is sent to Nazino Island, where thousands of deportees died while stranded in miserable conditions that remained mostly secret until a historical reckoning many decades later. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

“I am humbled to be a part of a historical lineup of performers, and to have the honor of creating a new show unlike anything Vegas has ever seen before,” she added. Lady Gaga heads for Las Vegas concert residency 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

But the two historical dramas are closely linked through an accident of timing. ‘Call the Midwife’ to Premiere on PBS 2012-09-29T23:29:02Z

Volsky remains a type and a vessel for historical experience, rather than a fully realised character. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z

“The town killed her. But it wasn’t just alcohol. It was the historical trauma that happened to our nations, too.” Liquid genocide: alcohol destroyed Pine Ridge reservation – then they fought back 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Which isn’t to say that her age in the role is never a distraction, depending on what your expectations are for swoony historical epics. Review: Helen Mirren Wears the Crown (This Time, Russia’s) 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Emily's blog has gone from quirky interest site to valuable historical document. From stationery fiends to hand dryer enthusiasts… who are you calling boring? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

But retrospective exhibitions demand a different narrative, one that allows an artist to be packaged and cataloged into art historical significance. Art Review: At New Museum, Brion Gysin?s First Retrospective 2010-07-29T21:21:00Z

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s dexterity with genre — oscillating between horror, thriller, crime and gothic — is well known by now, as is her penchant for mashing them with historical Mexican settings. The Dark Magic Wrought by a Nazi Occultist and a Doomed Horror Film 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

I think everyone was aware that we were a part of something important and historical. Bonnie Piesse on "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and her neurodivergent romcom 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

And the essays, which approach their subject from angles that range from the personal to the historical to the political, are a thought-provoking tonic. Who’s in the Kitchen: A Quartet of Culinary Narratives 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

The Neptune Theatre’s 100th anniversary is Nov. 16, and we’re compiling your memories and photos to commemorate this historical Seattle venue. Seattle’s storied Neptune Theatre turns 100 this month! Share your memories of times spent there with us 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

The origins of Islam were a "legitimate subject of historical enquiry", Holland wrote on the . Channel 4's Islam film sparks row 2012-09-03T11:59:06Z

The Jesus of history, however, is frozen in place, and that Jesus, that historical man, his politics are as clear as can be. “You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus 2014-04-20T10:59:00Z

Take in the city’s adobe-style architecture on a historical walking tour, visit an American Indian pueblo north of Santa Fe or soak in one of the surrounding area’s mineral hot springs. 14 Easy Weekend Getaways 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z

It will represent some 80 artists with photographs, slide projections, film, historical documents and more. Two Histories, of Aesthetics and Diasporas, at Bard College 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

None of the 80 or so searingly funny greeting cards requires historical context to be decoded 25 years later. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

“For guys in the ’sphere, there’s finally some sort of barometer to test their overall health from a historical perspective,” Mr. Tomassi said. Men Are Panicking About Their Sperm Count 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Some of the questions posed are ones Sarkissian himself is trying to answer: Can artists use their work to chronicle real-life events, positioning themselves as witnesses to historical changes? New Museum Puts Spotlight on Art From the Arab World 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

Such differences were there from the start, and in pointing out the contrasts Pagnamenta reveals much about both the British and American historical attitudes on class, independence and society. 'Prairie Fever': the highborn British and the American West 2012-06-06T21:19:18Z

Lori Birrell, the university’s historical manuscripts librarian, described Anthony’s nurturance of Avery as “a side of Anthony that we don’t really see in a lot of scholarly work on this movement.” Long Unseen, Treasures Have a New Spotlight 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

"Beheld," an elegantly suspenseful historical fiction account of a murder in Plymouth by TaraShea Nesbit, the bestselling author of "The Wives of Los Alamos," further complicates the narrative of the early colony. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Vanishingly few conductors dare program Beethoven with his historical contemporaries, to show just what made him exceptional. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

It’s this visceral manner of speech, not a series of historical claims and counterclaims, that will help us understand what, exactly, happened to Selma. All Oscar Ballots Should Be as Honest as This One 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

She did not begin the process with historical research. The Carpetbagger: Video: Alfre Woodard’s Sole Scene 2014-01-28T22:27:42Z

He has also done the best job of tackling the big social and historical issues, I think more successfully than anyone else has, taking historical facts and turned them into convincing art. Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China 2012-10-11T18:33:56Z

The essay’s theme — what Mr. Melillo calls the “disintegration of the social order” — is more than a historical curiosity. How Next Wave Is It? Joseph V. Melillo Picks His Kind of Show From His Final Program 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The hotel occupies a historical building, and the rooms are modern and spacious. Mardi Gras in Mobile — where it started 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

But most of the historical characters have always felt constricted by real-life fidelity and the show’s self-conscious use of them. REVIEW: Boardwalk vs. Empire: Can HBO's Gangster Chronicle Bring Its Two Sides Together? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

In an email correspondence, Mr. Massini talked about his artistic interest in historical figures and why he is hopes to visit New York. ‘Who Will Remember Her, Once She Is Buried?’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and available online through Aug. 31, it checks off every item on the company’s wish list, and then one more: It’s historical. ‘Woman’s Party’ Review: At War With Inequality, and Each Other 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Some of the historical hats are among the most fascinating, and surprisingly ageless. Exhibition of Victoria & Albert Hats 2011-09-15T03:44:07Z

The 2010 play "Neighbors," in which actors in blackface reference historical minstrel acts, was produced that year at the Matrix Theatre in L.A. Why a MacArthur Foundation grant for playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 31, is no surprise at all 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

And it’s important they do this, not just to advance historical truth-telling, but to secure and broaden an audience for art. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

But comics fans need not fret: 2020 is shaping up to be especially rich in visual stories — including textured memoirs and dark historical accounts, inspiring biographies and a whimsical look at relationships. Review | Some graphic novels to read in 2020 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Regardless of whether there are polygamous relationships among consenting adults where no other crimes are occurring, the historical stigma persists, she said. 'Sister Wives' family challenges Utah bigamy law 2012-07-25T09:46:04Z

She continues, “Printmaking can often feel historical and very pristine but his felt improvisational and open-ended. He throws the rule book out when it comes to printmaking.” A DNA Test Led Yashua Klos to New Connections and New Art 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

According ot Chavez, the historical and continued erasure of Native storytelling in the U.S. has been entirely intentional, much like how Black history in America has been deliberately left out of the classroom. "There's so many Natives who are jokesters": Native comedy redefines patriotism & busts stereotypes 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

But when we add the historical legacy of discrimination’s impact on wealth, it’s a whole different story, one of very little progress.  We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z

The barge and the tugboat resonate in a very historical way, almost like a raft. Cruising New York’s Waterways This Week: Portraits of Former Refugees 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s the sort of scenario — famous historical figure and his trusty but disapproving sidekick running around solving a crime, upsetting Edwardian propriety along the way — that’s often played for comedy, as a sprightly lark. Review: ‘Arthur & George’ and the Longest Case Ever 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The guests bring historical and scientific perspectives to the opera that rob it of its, well, operaness. A Luminous ‘Aria Code’ Joins a Meager Field of Classical Music Podcasts 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

It’s easy to imagine historical figures through the lens of Allison’s rumoring. When Blackness Is a Superpower 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

The star lot in the sale was almost as difficult to define in art historical terms. At Auction, Buyers Still Happily Dropping Millions for Quality Works 2010-05-06T11:30:00Z

Sometimes they tell my own, sometimes they tell historical stories like grains that travel with immigrants around the world or the story of a farmer's hard work in growing the delicious fruits you are eating. At Lutèce, Chef Isabel Coss blends abuela-inspired food origins with elevated French pastry-making 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

The 18th-century architecture in the historical center is something to marvel at, and the opera is very high caliber. A Local’s Take on What to Do in Bordeaux 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Among the most vexing problems Sankovitch faces is the question of historical context. Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

We are more geographical than historical, I would say. Pritzker winner Alejandro Aravena on Pinochet, postmodernism and building a house for $7,500 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Many attempts have been made to prove she was a genuine historical figure. Tart with a cart? Older song shows Dublin's Molly Malone in new light 2010-07-18T16:48:00Z

The New York Times called it “a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth. It’s an alarm clock ringing in the midst of a historical nightmare.” Spike Lee hopes Trump watches KKK film 'BlacKkKlansman' 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

I’ve always loved the cinema, especially the great sweeping historical epics. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Fresh Look at Benedict Arnold’s Treason 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

The group remains beloved for its historical musings, acoustic arrangements and earnest charm. Pop Music Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Why not look back to other historical moments when photography was transmitted through mass media, such as the rise of photography magazines or photo books? Tracing the Roots of Photo Sharing, From Mail Art to Instagram 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

This is an historical moment where one must choose a side. Taylor Swift, Entering a New Era, Sticks to a Safe Space: Tumblr 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Each artist was commissioned to create jewelry that represents historical events from each year of Lorene's life. Review: Fac?r? owner proudly wears her 70th year with a birthday show 2010-08-19T23:50:00Z

But how does the portrayal of these women stack up against the historical reality? The real women of "The Favourite" included an 18th-century Warren Buffett 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Porter fills in this historical record, but the man at the center remains elusive. Review: In ‘Bobby Kennedy for President,’ a Don Draper of Politics 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The film’s shrugging disregard for historical context would be negligible were the romance not so tedious and clichéd. ‘Eiffel’ Review: Paris is for Lovers 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Indeed, a recent study confirmed that American Indians’ thoughts about historical losses in their community continue to be associated with their mental health including substance misuse and suicidal ideation. Don’t tell traumatized people to just “get over it”: Easing trauma pains might take help from (and benefit) us all 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Stirred heavily into the mix of what Saunders calls “historical nuggets” are the voices of fictional characters, invented witnesses and commentators. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

It is, in my view, a perfect historical novel. Commonwealth writers' Commonwealth writers 2013-05-28T12:08:06Z

Into an indelible historical event, it inserts something that never happened: the coffin containing Kennedy’s shattered body was closed when it lay in state. Art Review | 'Skin Fruit': Anti-Mainstream Museum?s Mainstream Show 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z

There is very little historical record of what took place, and more than 200 years passed before New Englanders looked back and decided to call it the country’s first Thanksgiving. That now-famous Plymouth gathering didn’t jump-start Thanksgiving 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

“Mantel remains a historical novelist, which is to say one always thinking about how politics, trends and events shape character, one who knows in every sentence that the political is personal and vice versa.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

It’s to create a historical canon in the most broadly acceptable terms. Review: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ Will Break Your Heart and Win Your Mind 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The work should be done not just because of the centre's historical and architectural significance – it attracts enthusiasts from around the world – but most importantly to serve local health needs, he added. Campaigners fight plan to sell world-renowned Finsbury Health Centre 2010-04-12T14:49:00Z

He wrote the story and the screenplay and won an Oscar for that, but he also wrote several other historical fiction books that were really simple and all about telling a story. X’s John Doe gets spiritual: “I believe in things that you can’t see acting on the way things turn out” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Do any of you have some other historical perplexities that you hope future episodes will get around to explaining? 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Introducing a Special Guest, Ichabod Crane 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a chilling historical lesson, even though it didn’t actually happen. It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Daniel Hobbins, a historian at the University of Notre Dame, said many of those depictions played fast and loose with historical truth. At Shakespeare’s Globe, a Nonbinary Joan of Arc Causes a Stir 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

It was written in too much of a historical style and I thought it was boring. Group review selection 2012-11-26T15:00:00Z

With deep historical knowledge and nimble storytelling techniques, Mr. Pollard explores how idealism, horrific brutality and artistic genius converged in a single historical moment. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

That may be the case this year, with such movies as Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, and Django Unchained sparking debates over history, race, torture, and the historical record. Oscar Robbery: 10 Controversial Best-Picture Races 2013-02-20T13:00:04Z

What's important is historical consciousness, as any irritating Marxist student will attest to. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, an art historian and professor at Harvard University, said the commissioning of these statues as historical monuments are taken down signals “an expansion in the American narrative.” A Monument to the Lives of Black Women and Girls 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

What is worse is that the historical particulars of the story are sacrificed to Mr. Schnabel’s restless, preening stylishness. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z

TV & radio: 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' More most viewed 1.  Azed slip No. 2,126 2013-03-25T10:24:00Z

Though the Lakota did have a historical practice of dispersing plant seeds along riverbanks to ensure a continuing food supply, agriculture was not central to their lifestyle. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z

Maybe you didn’t think you liked historical novels. A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Liberty Bell," a biography of our nation's "nearly sacred totem," Gary B. Nash provides a stirring historical account of the icon that is America's "Rosetta Stone or ... 'The Liberty Bell': Truth and myth about a national icon 2010-06-16T23:59:00Z

Between 2005-2007 the ship sailed the historical route to Asia and back. Replica of Swedish 18th century trading ship to sail to Asia 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Terry's speech speaks to this while also putting faces and voices to a historical record too many Americans would rather erase or dilute. Yes, Native American culture exists, and "Rutherford Falls" digs into our collective "blind spots" 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

These were the days when they’d hop in a car and buy a historical society’s whole collection on a hunch. Tender Buttons, a One-of-a-Kind New York Institution, Closes Shop 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Mostly those historical concerts act as springboards for snapshots of an often tormented, always searching artist, just like songs were springboards in Simone’s freewheeling live act. Review: ‘Little Girl Blue’ Revisits Nina Simone in Her Prime 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

The creeds are the product of a very secular chain of political and intellectual influences, serving to obscure the historical core of what was new in Jesus's life and work. Christian Beginnings by Geza Vermes - review 2012-07-11T07:00:02Z

The museum brought in Black leaders — including performing artists and a historical society trustee — to create wall texts for the exhibition and won plaudits in the label writing competition of the American Alliance of Museums. Whose Writing Is on the Wall at the Museum? It Could Be Yours. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

He visited the sites of 29 famous crimes — some historical, some more recent. ‘Murder houses’: The haunting final chapter in true-crime stories 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Mindful of an audience not steeped in Persian history, Sofer goes out of her way to provide historical orientation — sometimes deftly, in old news clippings, and sometimes more heavily, in expository dialogue. He Tried to Change the System, Then Became It 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

I’d rather leave politics out of a fantasy drama recap, but when you undercut statue-toppling stagecraft with violent insurrection, the recent historical parallels become sort of hard to ignore. 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Premiere Recap: Stannis Emerging, Tyrion Unboxed 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

The 2 p.m. screening leads into a workshop for ages 5 through 7, in which the choreographer Jessica Williams will teach historical dance steps for an across-the-eras dance party. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

By providing a historical and literary perspective on the single woman, she reclaims the word “spinster” and brings dignity and gravitas to a subject that is often reduced to gags about drunk-dialing and shoe-shopping. I choose to be single 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The historical Cromwell, Mr. Herrin said, is a man “full of brilliant contradictions. He’s incredibly capable, devious, charming, playful, occasionally perverse, sometimes honorable.” Ben Miles Takes on ‘Wolf Hall’ Onstage 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

He described the silhouettes as straddling “Django Unchained,” — a “vaudeville parody” — and “Twelve Years a Slave,” a historical drama. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z

There is an “Avengers Assemble” feeling here, both in the gathering of historical figures — a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg even appears, briefly — and the bumper crop of acting talent. ‘Mrs. America’ Review: The Voice of an E.R.A. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

He read from Article 9 of the Italian Constitution, promising protection for “the historical and artistic heritage of the nation.” Abroad: In Italy, a Political Opera About Opera 2010-12-10T19:15:00Z

That was really fun, because it becomes scholarly and historical as well as cool clothing. 'Inherent Vice' costume designer Mark Bridges on Pynchon's world 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Despite the distant historical setting, she invests “The Dumb Girl of Portici” with a strong and bracing physical power. A Great Ballerina’s Explosive Movie Performance 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Still, it contains a good deal of historical sleuthing, as Miles details the search for Rose and Ashley, corroborating pioneering archival work done by the cultural anthropologist Mark Auslander. In One Modest Cotton Sack, a Remarkable Story of Slavery, Suffering, Love and Survival 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

The historical chapter that “Amsterdam” borrows from isn’t, oddly enough, as well known, but is profoundly more harrowing because it involves a 1930s fascist plot by wealthy businessmen to take over the United States. ‘Amsterdam’ Review: A Madcap Mystery With Many Whirring Parts 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

A historical duality forms part of the novel's backdrop: the two Sept. 11s — the 1973 military coup in Chile and the 2001 terrorist attack in New York — punctuate the distance between the novel's two locations. Lina Meruane's 'Seeing Red' is a piercing novel of blindness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

"I call upon him as a worldwide public figure to condemn antisemitism and the hatred and historical persecution of Jews." Joe Eszterhas claims to have received death threats over Mel Gibson race row 2012-06-07T09:07:22Z

The trade-off, she said, is that viewers miss out on the often captivating psychology behind the historical figures. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

And, certain paths are not always open to particular categories of people in certain historical contexts. The American’s dilemma: Jane Addams, Barack Obama & the urge to help others 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Beyond its historical consequence, “Icons” is also a monster exercise in cultural diplomacy and legal wrangling, and one that has not gone wholly according to plan. ‘Icons of Modern Art’: Picassos, Matisses, Monets, Oh, My! 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

There are two main reasons to restore and revive a film: one is artistic merit; the other is historical significance. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to find a historical precedent for Donald Trump’s tweetstorm about removing transgender men and women from the US Armed Forces. By denying trans people's the right to serve, Trump is failing as a military leader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

He has also recast the radical work of Beckett and Sartre, cutting them adrift from their historical moment. Artist of the week 2010-05-05T14:57:00Z

A more positive view of Mr. Haneke’s nomination — putting aside the obvious explanation, that he has directed a fine film — is rooted in the historical behavior of the Academy’s directors. Directors Guild vs. Oscars: An Unusual Year 2013-01-24T13:33:49Z

But historical and social context counts for a lot in how a work of art is perceived. ‘Godspell’ Review: Musical Theater Rises From the Dead 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

“Presidents matter. We run our historical timeline in the United States around presidential elections. In a celebrity culture, presidents are the top of the food chain.” When Truman is your grandpa: The complicated lives of presidential descendants 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Sharpton called Boseman an important pillar that humanized several Black historical trailblazers in his roles — including color-line breaking baseball star Jackie Robinson, legendary singer James Brown and the first African American U.S. Chadwick Boseman’s death leaves saddening mark on rough 2020 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

Graves was rejected, reveals Schueler, because even though he had written several historical novels, he was still primarily seen as a poet. Swedish Academy reopens controversy surrounding Steinbeck's Nobel prize 2013-01-03T15:43:46Z

“A Royal Affair” suffers from the richness of the historical material — there is so much going on here — and also, perhaps, from a patriotic desire to treat it reverently. Movie Review: ‘A Royal Affair,’ With Mads Mikkelsen 2012-11-08T22:32:05Z

Now, we’re in a historical “marriage” with a leader who doubles down on deceit when confronted with truth. Michael Cohen and the pathological liars among us 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

His historical memory is stunning, and he's slamming the philosopher hard, calling him a "liar," a "rebel," and accusing him of converting his students to "lovers of Sparta, the enemy." Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z

Fleeing a luxurious room in a historical hotel for a local frozen yogurt shop may seem odd. There’s more in Chapel Hill than the Tar Heels, a family finds 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Violence against Indigenous people is not just historical but ongoing, systemic and institutional, Diaz reminds us. Poems of Love and Desire That Push Back Against Oppression 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The historical society says it did not set out to stir the pot in choosing Mr. Petraeus, merely to highlight an accomplished public figure whose personal problems it views as a thing of the past. In Giving Petraeus an Honor, an Institution Gets Some Buzz 2013-09-15T21:50:36Z

And there's a long interlude where the book detours into a travel narrative in which a trip to Jerusalem becomes an occasion for historical meditations on antisemitism. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z

"A Man in Uniform" provides twists and turns fitting for a cozy mystery with an interesting historical setting. 'A Man in Uniform': a subtle, suspenseful novel of the Dreyfus Affair 2011-01-19T22:03:04Z

Children who don’t know who that is may want to round out the summer with another historical pastime: reading. Spare Times for Children for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

It isn’t, not really, though details and true stories from the book have been slipped into the mix amid amusing performances, historical re-creations and heavily perfumed fertilizer. Movie Review: ‘Hitchcock,’ With Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren 2012-11-22T22:23:25Z

The inn was opened in 1926 and each room is furnished with vintage furniture and historical photos of the railroad. Who needs a railroad museum? You can ride these circa-1870 rails yourself. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

"This juxtaposition of old and new to create an environment, an architectural context in which to display historical works, is what makes Shangri La so unique," she said. Artwork from Doris Duke's Shangri La comes to NYC 2012-09-08T16:15:10Z

Far from a mere collection of nutty pirouettes, Perec’s writing often confronts the most disturbing historical realities. The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Plus it’s interesting to see how writers and actors conjure the real historical figures who begin to populate the fictional world as Jake makes his way toward Dallas. Review: In ‘11.22.63,’ an Appointment in Dallas 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

He added: "These are really impressive works of literature… They deal with matters of great historical, moral and political import." Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z

In Liberty City, though, that isn’t only a historical fact, it still very much informs the present moment. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Good job bringing historical references from Spike's early work into context for today's audiences. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fierstein saw an opportunity to highlight the role of a historical woman activist and politician. Being Bella? Harvey Fierstein Doesn’t Need a Dress to Try 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Her film conveys the enormity of the historical moment but also offers some context and humane reassurance. 'I had this image of my husband making love to a tree': directors on filming shorts for Netflix's Homemade 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

When dramatic works draw upon historical events, is their primary responsibility to tell a good story or to tell the truth? LBJ, MLK and “Selma”: Hollywood’s controversy and the search for historical truth 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

The charge on the cross is historical: the Romans took Jesus as claiming to be the messianic king of the Jews. Books of The Times: Reza Aslan’s ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’ 2013-08-05T19:15:02Z

Over the years, Mr. Klein has crossed paths with many of the artistic figures of the latter half of the 20th century, and has been witness to many of its historical events. After a Storied Career, a Nonagenarian Photographer Returns to New York 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

We meet the production's historical advisor, Julian Humphrys from the Battlefields Trust, who explains the physical toll of medieval combat – and the impracticalities of armour. Shakespeare on the battlefield: the Globe theatre step out 2013-07-09T19:00:00Z

Leslie Hewitt arranges layered assemblages of books, magazines, historical prints and family snapshots, composite views of African-American life, past and present, then shoots them from above. Roots of Conceptual Art, Caught by a Camera’s Eye 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The historical Joan of Arc was a peasant, a soldier, a mystic and a martyr. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Imagining a crime-solving partnership between a grouchy police detective and a fictional Edgar Allan Poe, this historical thriller cooks up overheated gothic melodrama in a wintry New York setting. ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Review: Stolen Hearts and Tortured Minds 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Yet even as travelers began collecting historical and scientific mementos, not just religious items, the things they brought home had echoes of sacred objects. Souvenirs 101 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

But the society is focused on its historical value and plans to install the work permanently on the first floor on June 14, Flag Day. Christie’s Offers a Sale on the Theme of Potential Failure 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

And it has the cast: Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman as the title characters, supported by a small army of distinguished character actors playing assorted historical figures. Television Review: ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ Has Its Premiere on HBO 2012-05-27T22:40:54Z

Their numbers had dropped 86 percent over the past year, to 0.6 percent of their historical average. Butterflies were symbols of rebirth. Then they started disappearing. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

That’s often true — in more ways than one — of the research that anchors the series, which uses D.N.A. analysis and historical sleuthing to uncover the often-complicated backgrounds of its celebrity guests. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Finding Your Roots’ and ‘Mayfair Witches’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

For some songs he rehearsed passages of the lyrics he translated into Japanese in his own words, adding historical background that included racial and social disparities while conveying the message of anger, sorrow and love. Murakami plays antiwar songs on radio to protest Ukraine war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

But with its rich biographic and historical material, “Hamilton” may be especially well suited to the treatment. "Hamilton," Based on a Book, Is Becoming One Again 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Galliano’s more familiar focus on the body, however historical the clothes, was lost inside the graphic shapes and the vast skirts of ball gowns that came down the runway in an unstoppable stream. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z

In short, before they became linked as the independent discoverers of natural selection, Darwin and Wallace had already become the first modern historical biogeographers. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z

“Photography only works for me when I find good clear historical references or locations used by important photographers or by just ripping off myself.” Florian Maier-Aichen’s Photographs Go on Display at Blum & Poe 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

A simple statement, but one with huge historical and tragic implications. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

“Every portrayal of a historical event should be historically accurate,” he explained. I’m a U.S. veteran, “American Sniper” is rife with lies 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Mantel's critically acclaimed historical novel is a sequel to "Wolf Hall," which also won the Booker. Hilary Mantel up for 3rd major literary award 2013-03-13T12:33:09Z

Spaniards believed Marco for a long time and hailed him as a celebrity, a hero of suffering, “a rock star of historical memory,” as Cercas contemptuously calls him. Unmasking the Spanish ‘Impostor’ Who Lied About Surviving the Nazis 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Amitav Ghosh’s “The Nutmeg’s Curse” is an illuminating book by any measure on the historical roots of the climate emergency today. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

“The Daughter of Dawn” was shot in black and white, with a frequent use of a golden tint — perhaps meant to suggest a timeless Golden Age — that reinforces its status as buried historical treasure. Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

In many ways it seems as much like Soviet Russia, as historical theocracies like the Spanish Inquisition. Philip Pullman on His New Trilogy and the upcoming 'His Dark Materials' TV Show 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Despite some faint gestures in the direction of journalistic balance, it plays a lot like a two-hour infomercial for the Playboy publisher's historical importance, philosophical depth and personal greatness. "Hugh Hefner" and the creation of American manhood 2010-07-30T00:30:00Z

The book’s discussion of this historical context is too brief to be anything but an enjoyable diversion, but it does throw up some instructive tidbits. It’s Comments All the Way Down 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The film is full of historical art references which Derek contemporised for his audience. From Donna Summer to Derek Jarman: gay stars reveal the artworks that changed their lives 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Of the 10 most recent best-actor nominees, eight played historical figures. What Does the Academy Value in a Black Performance? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

In a funny but heartbreaking historical passage, an ivory-billed woodpecker destroys a hotel room like a mad rock star. Jungle Mold, Ornithology and Lawn Care: 3 New Novels Find Hilarity in Unexpected Places 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Its reconstruction of old buildings has become a methodical exercise in archaeological and historical research. Reconstructed Williamsburg, unreconstructed boy

Lined up, daring us to go on uninformed, were seven historical markers. On the Virginia Capital Trail, bike through 400 years of history in 52 miles 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

She later did historical research on agriculture and architecture. Elizabeth Brown Pryor, biographer of Robert E. Lee and Clara Barton, dies 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

"My talents are melodramatic and a mite grandiose," he wrote with considerable self-insight to his editor, "and this goes down better with historical sauce." David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

We expect to be stimulated about historical questions.” ‘Selma’ Questions Are Nothing New for Historical Films 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

“It is an amazing historical document, but it’s also a living document,” he said. Revisiting the Pyramids’ ‘Avant-Garde African Jazz,’ Four Decades Later 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

“One of the things I’m always struck by when doing historical research is how rarely people are able to predict what lies ahead of them — the bad, definitely, but also the good,” he wrote. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

Now, 13 years later, the events of that day and the following months are cast in a strange twilight as direct experience fades into historical memory. Review: ‘Before, During, After,’ by Richard Bausch

Ms. Kent rejects the revenge and horror labels, instead calling her film “a true recounting of a historical horror.” Summer Chills: A Horror Fan’s Guide to What to Watch Right Now 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Stephens says while there are many social and historical reasons why there are fewer women artists, he also detects a level of institutional bias. Tate Britain: On the move 2013-05-03T18:40:01Z

In the novel, Oates draws from the historical record but likewise plays with facts. ‘Blonde’ Review: Exploiting Marilyn Monroe for Old Times’ Sake 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

Just as their images are missing from the historical society’s holdings in cartes de visite, their words are missing from its archives of letters. Review: ‘Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

In art historical terms, this refers to what historian Erwin Panofsky called “disguised symbols,” which are objects intentionally inserted into artworks for their symbolic, not their literal, value. Statue of Liberty: Still America’s national icon? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

None of these works aspire to historical accuracy. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

Black women in particular are largely erased from the American historical trajectory — marginalized, at best. Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Like Mattie herself, she had also been an indefatigable writer of historical articles for our town newspaper. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

She had written but not yet published a young-adult novel, “A Girl Named Summer,” when she entered the historical romance genre in 1985 with “Gentle Warrior,” a story set in feudal England. Julie Garwood, Best-Selling Romance Novelist, Dies at 78 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

A critic “must be omnivorous,” he says, and his historical appetite has him raiding biographies, letters, census records and city plat maps. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Many filmmakers, academics and critics attest to the historical and aesthetic importance of Canyon Cinema’s collection. Canyon Cinema Filmmakers? Cooperative Sees Grim Future 2012-02-17T13:00:00Z

What major historical event happened on the same day 67 years before the touchdown of Curiosity? The Observer science quiz 2012: part 2 2012-12-22T17:00:02Z

But that simple historical phrasing is a recent innovation. Ghosts of an assassination: The chaotic history of Franz Ferdinand’s demise 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Johnson: The cursory understanding of the historical relationships between Blacks and Jews is a function of an even broader problem which we'll discuss below about where students are and aren't getting their knowledge from. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Despite this historical context, “Rise and Kill First,” parts of which appeared in The New York Times Magazine, is far from an apologia. ‘Rise and Kill First’ Shines Light on Israel’s Hidden Assassinations 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

He tends to dump his glittery insights at the beginnings and endings of chapters, and stuff the blah centers with potted historical background. Books of The Times: Sing It Loud: Changing the World With a Song 2011-04-28T16:23:27Z

The assignment was to create a thorough historical record. Perspective | Liz Cheney understood the assignment 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

The history of historical re-enactment offers a forceful lesson: it is a better guide to the preoccupations of the present than the reality of yesterday. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z

It’s about setting up historical relationships between productions. Depth on the Dance Floor: The Music of DJ Sprinkles 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

The critic Tim Page offers anecdotes and historical tidbits about the famous space. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

We also checked in with Edward Lengel, chief historian of the White House Historical Association, for some historical context. What’s it like to be a kid in the White House? These 10-year-olds have a lot of ideas. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

The historical center of Amsterdam will be illuminated for 50 nights during this festival, now in its second year. In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Germany; California; Amsterdam 2013-12-06T17:00:00Z

“He’s part of an art historical conversation,” said Daniel S. Palmer, the fund’s curator, “from old masters to the contemporary imagery of our current moment.” Beyond Beyoncé Fame, Awol Erizku Expands What Black Art Can Be 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

The works, which examine the disappearance of historical memory, were partly inspired by the poems of the Hong Kong writer Leung Ping-Kwan, who also explored themes around how traditions disappear and become only memories. History and Humor Inspire Victor Ehikhamenor’s Art 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

However, "Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles" is also about the social and historical lessons of the French Revolution, from its opulence and decadence to its transparency and inequality. Inside the opulence and decadence of "Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles" 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

And so, it was interesting being there during such a historical event. As "Top Chef" goes global, Tom Colicchio reflects on the competition's recipe for success 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

So the plot, such as it is, has an Art Banker searching throughout the world and historical time for Goya’s missing skull. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

For nearly six decades, Mr. Watson was a one-man translation factory, producing indispensable English versions of Chinese and Japanese literary, historical and philosophical texts, dozens of them still in print. Burton Watson, Prolific Translator of Classical Asian Literature, Dies at 91 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

In addition to his postal work, Mr. Koslow achieved a substantial reputation as a historical painter for the Air Force and NASA. Howard Koslow Dies at 91; Artist Designed Stamps for 40 Years 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Can you tell us more about some of the historical accounts you dug up? Keris Salmon’s haunting canvases pair plantation photos and slave diaries 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

There appeared a number of explanations for their behavior — their historical aversion to killing anyone at all for any reason and their separatist convictions. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Garrow argues that “Dreams From My Father” is neither memoir nor autobiography but “a work of historical fiction.” A Take-No-Prisoners Biography of Barack Obama Examines His Early Love Life 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

AM: For plot purposes it gave us access to a number of interesting historical events that happened in the counter culture around that time. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

Gran wastes no time inviting him to speak to her historical society, the Descendants of the Glorious Dead. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z

But the sentiment fits the historical figure this play of ideas introduces, and if it finds an echo now, that is very much the point. ‘JQA’ Review: Fictional History That Resonates Today 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a subject that’s, literally, more than black and white: It involves pitting minority groups against one another, using historical concerns for manipulative ends. Making Talk TV for a Post-TV Generation 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Descriptions of all these menial activities add rich texture to this historical novel. ‘Miss Emily,’ by Nuala O’Connor: a fictional look at the Belle of Amherst 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we desperately searched for historical analogies through which to find understanding. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

It’s a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is important to remember that a novel like this is neither an extensive biographical study nor is it historical fiction. Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort? 2013-03-20T09:22:00Z

As engrossing as it is, it's still a white liberal fantasy in historical drag -- "Crash" with smiles and hugs. Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past 2011-08-12T15:20:00Z

For its part, the Dallas Symphony was drawn to the idea of commissioning work from a young composer, born decades after the assassination, who might bring a fresh artistic perspective to the historical event. Texas Monthly: The Artworks John F. Kennedy Saw in Texas on Nov. 21, 1963 2012-11-25T05:07:16Z

In this new book’s first essay, “Travelling,” Holmes suggests that “biography is not merely a mode of historical enquiry. It is an act of imaginative faith.” An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit,’ by Richard Holmes 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

She advised Short-Colomb on shaping the personal and historical details, but it was the questions the budding performer raised that provided profundity. At 63, she enrolled at the university that sold her enslaved ancestors. Now she’s starring in a play about them. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

There are historical examples of these kinds of stories. Errol Morris: two sides to every scandal 2011-03-10T22:34:01Z

The five sections relied on texts from different historical sources and different music. Malavika Sarukkai expressively displays Bharata Natyam 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Plenty of recent popular historical television series, both local and international, have trodden this path. A Place to Call Home is Australian television to be proud of 2013-07-18T02:32:00Z

It’s become trickier for pop entertainments to gloss over historical traumas, which may be why so many modern colonial struggles involve deep space or an alien invasion. Review: A ‘Tarzan’ With a Few Twists in the Hollywood Vine 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Butler has a nose for detail and historical resonances, and he uses disco and house music in a way that foregrounds their gay, underground origins. Hercules & Love Affair – review 2012-08-08T16:44:23Z

Methodology In defining a tourist attraction, we considered sites of historical or cultural interest; natural phenomena and landmarks; and officially designated entertainment and recreation centers. America's Top Tourist Attractions 2010-05-20T20:40:00Z

The 3-D historical action movie “Dragon Blade” starring Jackie Chan ruled at mainland cinemas over the Chinese New Year holiday, raking in $54.4 million in a record-breaking week for the country’s box office. Jackie Chan's 'Dragon Blade' rules Chinese box office during holiday 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

The musicians, specialists from French early-music groups, play on historical instruments with gut strings. Musicians strive for authenticity by bowing to the past 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

But I confess, I wouldn’t have minded more historical material here — a sign, perhaps, that this critic should not be trusted alone in erotic playgrounds. ‘Funland’ at Museum of Sex Imitates a Carnival Visit 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

I think I preferred the historical drama You get that, too. Claudia O'Doherty – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-14T14:27:47Z

The historical center of Venice divides the Lagoon more or less in half. Learning to Navigate the Venetian Lagoon Like a Pro 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

An absence of specific historical information allows you to place your 15th-century heroine Jacquetta in "Lady" in the company of Joan of Arc. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z

"This biography will revolutionise historical thinking about a crucial period in China's – and the world's – history." Jung Chang writes 'groundbreaking' new biography 2013-05-23T13:07:12Z

But, with its gauzy romance unscrolling over a scrim of historical trauma, “A Place for Wolves” could prove too problematic to salvage. In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Or the Oscar-winning OJ: Made in America and I Am Not Your Negro, offering a historical perspective on today’s race landscape. How Jay-Z’s new docuseries on Trayvon Martin exposes America 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to forget the historical importance of Monday’s unveiling. Review | The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect, and that’s why they’re great 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

The worlds he constructs usually require detailed knowledge of historical events or scientific disciplines. Jim Shepard has new collection of short stories 2011-03-22T12:22:10Z

Samuel opens “The Harder They Fall” with a title card noting it’s a fictional story but based on real historical figures: “These. People. Exited.” Giving the Western some swagger in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

"I think everyone knows the Russian army massacred hordes of people in Chechnya. It's a historical fact," Hazanavicius told journalists and critics at a press conference. France's Godard at 83 screens a 3D 'Adieu' at Cannes 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

While the mainstream press and others have expressed moral outrage over Trump’s fawning associations with brutal dictators, they have refused to examine these relationships within a broader historical context. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

If I felt any tension between the two, I thought it was inherent to historical drama. The Age of ‘The Age of Innocence’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The bridge, also historical, is one of the last standing iron bridges of its kind. At Maryland’s Savage Mill, history and commerce converge 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

A partial answer is supplied by Mr. Vo’s “Death Sentence,” a series of literary and historical texts in English and French that accompany the chandelier. Art Review: Simple Truths in Matters of Life and Death 2011-03-24T21:40:03Z

If you don’t do that, you’re sending things into historical record which are conceived to be true and which are not. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

Colorful fruit and vegetables reflect the culinary and historical themes of Passover and they add a modern flare. For a new take on old traditions, consider this passover grazing board 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

And the National Heritage Board and a private company called Singapore History Consultants recently introduced a historical walking tour for students. Heads Up : In Singapore’s Center, but a World Away 2014-04-02T16:39:21Z

Reaction against termination, the curators argue, was the turning point, the beginning of a newly sophisticated Native awareness and resistance, and an embrace of historical treaties as a bulwark against the decimation of culture. ‘Nation to Nation’: Full of the intriguing, often maddening details of history

The book’s ambition and popularity move interpretation of the war from a relatively minor literary and historical specialization to a much more widespread cultural concern. Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 2012-05-23T22:21:26Z

If acceptance continues to grow, then the wave of older people who transition may turn out to be something of a historical blip. 'Age has nothing to do with it': how it feels to transition later in life 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

Those two things happening simultaneously were going to be a big historical turn along the lines of Roosevelt and Reagan getting elected. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z

Gem dealers in the Gulf hope the market’s newfound mania for natural pearls will usher in a commercial renaissance for their historical trading hub. Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: Mother Nature Fights Back 2010-12-10T18:40:00Z

Representing a new synthesis, he is able to compose and dissect his own music at the highest level, and also to detail the historical context of his work. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

This is a meticulously researched and deeply felt corrective to the public narrative of who today’s migrants are, why they are coming and what economic and historical forces have propelled them from their homes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian In historical terms, it's absolutely fascinating that they've found Richard III – but it doesn't remotely affect the picture we get of him in Shakespeare's play. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z

Much of what I did under the auspices of research involved simply walking around and looking more closely at the historical residue I had spent my entire life passing by. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

The historical context was well drawn, tracing links between Public Enemy and spiritual slave songs, both seen as "rebellion of enslavement". The Black CNN ? When Hip Hop Took Control 2010-06-25T05:45:00Z

“The museum is a historical institution with an obligation to relay all parts of the story,” Miller said in an interview. 9/11 Museum’s 20th-Anniversary Exhibitions Become Victims of Cuts 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

Dr. Prados liked to say that his love for researching and writing was closely related to his second passion: designing board games that intricately simulated historical military conflicts. John Prados, Master of Uncovering Government Secrets, Dies at 71 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

The prospect of Weldon's vigorous iconoclasm being brought to bear on the historical novel was therefore thrilling. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon – review 2012-08-03T21:55:02Z

Their romance and marriage takes on historical significance once Nazi Germany invades the bride’s native village. On DVD, an American in Paris (and in the Soviet Union) 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

This was historical fiction — but there was no sense that a history lesson lurked. I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Placing the theft in historical context, Kurkjian charts the evolution of Boston’s gang wars in the 1980s and details how criminals have used stolen art to bargain plea deals. A new look at a legendary art heist in ‘Master Thieves’ by Stephen Kurkjian 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The website handles tour reservations and gives more historical detail than fits on the map. Seen ‘Columbus,’ the movie? Meet Columbus, the modernist mecca 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Our historical fiction columnist, Alida Becker, called it a “finely drawn narrative” that “hints at the vagaries that can seal any man’s fate.” New in Paperback: ‘Oh William!’ and ‘The Great Mistake’ 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

It’s part sketch comedy and part advertorial, with some historical fiction tossed in, too. Review: In Centuries-Spanning ‘Bump,’ It’s Always Labor Day 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

In some he wears little makeup, while in others he appears in whiteface, which only heightens the incongruence of his own body in these historical and geographical flights. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Bond grounds the freedom movement in the nascent activism and longer historical transformations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Twists and Turns of Black History 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

“We’re kind of getting back in touch with our historical heritage, cognitively.” Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Selvon’s father, Nelson — mute and wheelchair-bound — is the historical consciousness of the novel; he was part of the “Windrush generation,” the Caribbean workers enlisted to rebuild Britain after World War II. A Debut Novel Unfolds Over 48 Tense Hours in London 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

It is the story of three such Scottish women that is told in Abigail Docherty's historical play which is based on the diaries of young women who nursed during the Great war. This week's new theatre 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

More troubling than apparently unintended irony is that Akpan’s stratagem doesn’t imbue him with enough confidence to give free rein to that historical war story in any of the fictionalized iterations with which he toys. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

SUN Music, kids' activities, historical demonstrations, antique gun display, salmon barbecue, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-21T23:35:04Z

Though it would have offered a chance to draw on the music that the historical Hamilton knew, for Mr. Miranda such a moment might have been a bit too on-the-nose. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Vivid social history full of match girls and toshers from a novelist who loved playing games with historical events. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z

As the tour’s name suggests, starting with one of Oxford’s most controversial historical figures is very much the point. In Britain, these Oxford walking tours focus on often-glossed-over parts of the city’s history 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z