Saidiya Hartman

A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.

The daughter of Buddy Holly's bandmate reflects on the defensiveness some white people have about the roots of rock 'n' roll.

As was the case in 200 years ago, this summer's relentless pyrotechnics may not be meaningless acts of an unthinking mob.

We might say that these books are recording a life with music, and that they are worth listening to.

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.

What haunts the land? When two artists dig up the tangled history of slavery and soil exhaustion in Maryland, soil memory reveals ongoing racial violence.

Culture warriors envision a future in which the educational power of universities will be harnessed to the propagation of a “biblical worldview” nationwide.