Culture

There’s never been a golden age of free speech at American universities.

Projected to earn $1 billion and earning Tony-Award glory, 'Hamilton' the musical is still going strong in backyards and classrooms across the country.

And why you might never have heard of Ira Aldridge.

For decades, the military made sure soldiers had access to the treat—including spending $1 million on a floating ice-cream factory.

Historically black colleges and universities hosted all but six ATA tournaments from 1927 to 1968.

Popular theater productions and Hollywood movies about the Vietnam War have a continued place in popular culture and memory.

If everyone is breaking records, then who goes to Canton?

Are you part of the problem?

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.

The classic baseball hit "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" has a lot more to do with U.S. history than one might think.

In many ways, silent film was an art form entirely different from the "talkies" we enjoy today.

The history of the epithet, from its rise among leftists and jazz critics and folkies to its recent fall from favor.

The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.

Is polygamy justifiable? Is it lawful to eat swine's flesh?

It's been a tough year for the Georgia peach.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.

The bowl-shaped seat's conflicted heritage incorporates the Vietnam War.

Freeing Thoreau from layers of caricature that have long distorted his legacy.

Journalism in two different eras of drug waves illustrates how strongly race factors into empathy and policy.

Language variation is just as diverse within Appalachia as it is outside of the region.

Decades before "The L Word," Edythe Eyde knew her magazine for lesbians — Vice Versa — was illegal.

Snobbish elitism will hurt their cause.

The culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia was unique.

How Earhart and other women pilots of her day helped overcome Americans’ skepticism about flight.

The crucial decade was the 1970s, when the industry’s increased consolidation and ever-blander product collided with key social and economic changes.

It was a time when promoters were telling women in music: “You can’t put two women on the same bill. People won’t come.”

Out-of-the-can branding helped transform World War II’s rations into a beloved household staple.

A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space.”

A pair of 1959 films brought "Smell-o-vision" into movies.

Henry Adams's classic autobiography speaks to concerns of privilege, failure, and progress in his rapidly changing world.