PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

With a cult of cost-chainsawing threatening every facet of the US government, what might become of the tens of thousands of ...

Though Corita Kent’s artworks were made over half a century ago, they still feel relevant in today’s America, for better or ...

The Asco art collective emerged at the height of the Chicano civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. When filmmaker ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Despite significant progress over the years, the fight against racism and racial discrimination remains as urgent as ever.

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

It also violated the custom that swaps involve similar sorts of prisoners—spies for spies, or criminals for criminals. Mr Biden had originally asked Russia to hand over other detainees, including Paul ...

Pinwheels for Prevention at Warren G. Harding High School Student Recreation and Wellness Center, Warren, at 1:30 ...

Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade's quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome image belied a dark and tortured ...

that was used in the 1860s to promote land sales made by a railroad company in Northern Missouri, part of the nation’s western expansion after the Civil War. A chromolithographed 1889 sample ...