A long list of lost or submerged lands and extinct civilizations couldn't see ahead, didn't care about their descendants, or cared only about the present. Foresight or the will to do anything about it ...

The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge ...

Professor Anishanslin specializes in Early American and Atlantic World History, with a focus on eighteenth-century material culture. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware’s History of ...

This weekend, with drums and rain sticks and extra-long Indigenous flutes, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is preparing to stir the great American melting pot. “Visions of Cahokia,” a 14-minute ...

In a grotesquely unfair 1981 review of TJ Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace, the Rutgers intellectual and cultural historian’s classic analysis of anti-modernism in American thought and the arts, ...

I belong to the last generation of Americans that grew up with Western heroes. Yet by the 1970s, all that had slipped away. After the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, it was hard to admire ...

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