Social & Cultural History

As minister of education and president of the Academy of Sciences, Count Sergei Uvarov was one of the most important statesmen in nineteenth-centur...

In the spring of 1916, an unknown photographer captured the heart of Prescott, Arizona. For decades the fruits of that labor, a collection of gl...

In 1911, the Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken before or since. In the days when travel was by train, and even...

Who was the most beautiful woman in England in the twentieth century and why did she become the most hated woman? Who spent £500,000 to remodel he...

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 ...