Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being ...

Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, Ella Fitzgerald, and other Black Americans made valuable artistic contributions to the Harlem Renaissance.

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A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.

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Method of Mechanical Theorems is a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, the head of the library of Alexandria and a ...