Social & Cultural History

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from th...

Behind every typeface is a story who designed it, and why? What are its distinctive characteristics, and what cultural baggage does it carry? T...

The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. Shape shifting between the supernatural practices of '...

Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai`i for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalisat...

For almost three decades, the Cold War was focused on Berlin, where the two (nuclear-armed) sides were kept apart by a twelve-foot wall, which had ...

The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine... From birthdays to religious ceremonies, the people of Mesoamerica c...

Step away from sunny Jerseys present day and into the sinister shadows of the past the islands history is filled with dark deeds and restless spir...

Have we been fooling ourselves? Has the almost complete takeover of culture by the thinking of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment come without a ...