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A church building situated amongst mountains.

Thoreau In Good Faith

A literary examination of Henry David Thoreau's life and legacy today.
by Caleb Smith via Public Books on July 19, 2021
John Cage on the quiz show "Lascia o Raddoppia?"

Freedom for Sale

In the 1950s and 1960s, a new generation of American artists began to think of advertising and commercial imagery as the new avant-garde.
by Fintan O’Toole via New York Review of Books on July 1, 2021
A woman setting up a picnic outside a pink car

The Sorry History of Car Design for Women

A landscape architect of the 1950s predicted that lady drivers would want pastel-colored pavement on the interstate.
by Ashawnta Jackson via JSTOR Daily on June 29, 2021
Album cover for "We Insist!", which features African American men sitting at a lunch counter

The Sounds of Struggle

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Black artists are taking similar strides today.
by Michael Beyea Reagan via Boston Review on June 24, 2021
“Natural Bridge, Virginia” (1860) by David Johnson. Oil on canvas.

Rekindling the Wonder of Natural Bridge, Once a Testament to American Grandeur

"Virginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art,” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, surveys the arch as icon and propaganda.
by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on June 16, 2021
Building with a currogated tin facade and sign saying "Richard Perkins Contractor"

The Anti-Nostalgia of Walker Evans

A recent biography reveals the many contradictions of the photographer who fastidiously documented postwar American life.
by Rahel Aima via The Nation on June 8, 2021
Chinatown architecture

The Surprising Reason Why Chinatowns Worldwide Share the Same Aesthetic

It all started with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
by Josh Jones via Open Culture on May 19, 2021
A "trick" photograph of a woman holding six heads

Snap Judgment

A brief history of trick photography.
by Kim Beil via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 6, 2021
Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Demonstration In New York

Cameras for Class Struggle

How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.
by Max Pearl via Art In America on April 21, 2021
US Capitol

Is the US Capitol a 'Temple of Democracy'? Its Authoritarian Architecture Suggests Otherwise

The neoclassical building was inspired by European shrines to imperial power.
by Megan Goldman-Petri via The Conversation on February 8, 2021

The Radical History of Corporate Sensitivity Training

The modern-day human-resources practice is rooted in avant-garde philosophy.
by Beth Blum via The New Yorker on September 24, 2020
Broadway New York 1893

Perilous Proceedings

Documenting the New York City construction boom at the turn of the 20th century.
by David Gibson via Library of Congress on June 29, 2020
Rapper YG, one of a crowd of people at a protest over the death of George Floyd.

Hip-hop Is the Soundtrack to Black Lives Matter Protests

Songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues.
by Tyina Steptoe via The Conversation on June 25, 2020

Bowling For Suburbia

By adopting middle-class aesthetics, the bar-basement bowling alley became the "poor man's country club."
by Kate Reggev via Contingent on May 8, 2020
Portrait-style painting of woman in brown dress, with a modern COVID-19 protective mask digitally imposed on her face

Early American Women Unmasked

The masks owned by early American women and even children were no less symbolic than modern masks in terms of practical use, commodification, or controversy.
by Philippe Halbert via The Junto on May 5, 2020

In the Time of Monsters

Watchmen is a sophisticated inquiry into the ethical implications of its own form—the flash and bang, the prurience and violence of comic books.
by Namwali Serpell via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2020
Cartoon drawing of a shopkeeper in front of a dairy shop.

How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon ‘Free Lunch.’

Ben Katchor's Brief History of the Dairy Restaurant.
by Ben Katchor via Literary Hub on March 10, 2020
Travels through Virginia. From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White. Depicting American Indians dancing.

The Construction of America, in the Eyes of the English

In Theodor de Bry’s illustrations for "True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia," the Algonquin are made to look like the Irish. Surprise.
by Ed Simon via JSTOR Daily on December 4, 2019

A Short History of Country Music’s Multicultural Mishmash

Or everything that came before Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus walked down that “Old Town Road.”
by David Hajdu via The Nation on June 7, 2019
Image of Sergeant Pete Thibodeau during the War on Terror.

The Sum of All Beards

How did facial hair win American men’s hearts and minds? Thank the War on Terror.
by Adam Weinstein, Adrian Bonenberger via The New Republic on June 4, 2019
An example of Frank Lloyd Wrights American System-Built Homes.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Affordable Housing Project

American System-Built Homes in Chicago (and elsewhere).
by Taylor Moore via Belt Magazine on May 9, 2019
Landscape shot of Los Angeles, with Hollywoodland sign in the background.

True West: Searching for the Familiar in Early Photos of L.A. and San Francisco

A look at early photography reveals the nuances of California's early development.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on February 13, 2019
Photographs of Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman.

When Wilde Met Whitman

As he told a friend years later, "the kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips."
by Michèle Mendelssohn via Literary Hub on July 16, 2018

Illustrated Maps of New York Through the Ages

A selection of illustrated maps of New York spanning six centuries.
by Katherine Harmon via The Paris Review on June 14, 2018

My Dad Painted the Cover for Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung,' and It's Haunted Him Ever Since

His quest to receive proper compensation illuminates the struggle for artists’ rights.
by Robert Silverman via The Outline on May 10, 2018
Garry Winogrand book on a shelf.

Garry Winogrand’s Photographs Contain Entire Novels

A photographer whose work resembles that of a realist novelist, we observe a cast of characters as they change over time.
by Geoff Dyer via Literary Hub on April 25, 2018
Vintage print of the Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern American Architecture

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Ella Howard via Digital Public Library of America on February 28, 2018

In 1968, When Nixon Said "Sock It To Me" on 'Laugh-In,' TV Was Never Quite the Same Again

The show's rollicking one-liners and bawdy routines paved the way for cutting-edge television satire.
by Ryan Lintelman via Smithsonian on January 19, 2018
Collage by pop artist Tom Wesselmann depicting a kitchen table with food

Pop Art in the US

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Virginia B. Spivey via Digital Public Library of America on September 29, 2017

American Sphinx

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.
by Colin Dickey via Longreads on August 31, 2017
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