Shows of John Singer Sargent, Jack Whitten and other master artists make our critics' list of the best museum exhibitions of ...

A comedic skit comparing fashion of the 1940s to modern 2025 trends. Watch as eras collide with witty fashion commentary and ...

1947: Construction — or at least demolition — begins on the Interregional Highway in central Austin. Property owners along ...

When the Nazis came to power in Germany, so-called "degenerate" Surrealist artists were forced to flee. Fortunately, Mexico ...

Although Gaelic was heard in a short documentary about Eriskay by German filmmaker Werner Kissling in 1935, I Know Where I'm Going was the first time dialogue in the language appeared in a feature ...

Set after WWII in the late 1940s, Netflix and Ryan Murphy’s miniseries “Hollywood” revisits a time of racial and sexual discrimination in Hollywood and rewrites this history. In an age where the dream ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

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ABSTRACT: Jim Crow and apartheid are two examples of systems that have extensively propagated differential oppression among the echelons of humanity. Apartheid laws in South Africa and Jim Crow laws ...

Emerson's Patriot Radio, model FC-400, made in 1940 Philadelphia Museum of Art In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on.