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Barbara Strozzi defied the constraints of the times in which she lived. Born just over 400 years ago, gifted as a singer and composer, she was o...

As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger...

Hollywood immortalized one of the most famous prison breaks in wartime history, The Great Escape of 76 Allied soldiers and officers from Germany...

The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...

Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...

Drawing from new book Health Justice Now, activist and author Timothy Faust makes the case for a single-...

Facing overwhelming obstacles, Jews and others in occupied Europe resisted Nazi rule in a variety of ways during World War II. Some instigated u...

As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...

Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...

Women who were pregnant and unmarried in the early 1900s faced limited options and societal scorn. Many chose, or were sent, to deliver their babie...