Helen Keller achieved notoriety not only as an individual success story, but also as a prolific…
Tag: History
A Brief History of the Concept Album: From Woody Guthrie, to the Beatles and Pink Floyd, to Taylor Swift
Though Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band holds something of an honorary cultural position as “the…
The History of Ancient Japan: The Story of How Japan Began, Told by Those Who Witnessed It (297-1274)
Here in the twenty-first century, many of us around the world think of Japan as essentially…
Beethoven’s Genome Has Been Sequenced for the First Time, Revealing Clues About the Great Composer’s Health & Family History
Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, a bit early to be subjected to the kinds of…
Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History
Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. “The Spirit of…
We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It
It took me many years to love my Blackness. Much of that had to do with…
The Life & Art of Gustav Klimt: A Short Art History Lesson on the Austrian Symbolist Painter and His Work
The Austrian symbolist painter, Gustav Klimt, a driving force of the Vienna Secession, has joined the…
How Fast Food Began: The History of This Thoroughly American (and Now Global) Form of Dining
What is the most American institution of all? The mind first goes in the directions of…
The History of Western Art in 23 Minutes: From the Prehistoric to the Contemporary
Among the ranks of Open Culture readers, there are no doubt more than a few art-history…