The soft hum of Chicano soul music bled onto the darkened street as a steady stream of people made their way into a record store in San ...

Most 14-year-olds are avid fans of Taylor Swift and Charli XCX - but three teens from Yorkshire have turned to the vocals of The Chordettes, Glenn Miller and The Andrews Sisters. Transporting viewers ...

James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- As New York City's largest borough, and second most populated, Queens is home to nearly 2.3 million people. The borough is known for its historical landmarks, major airports, sports ...

The all-Black cast includes Nicole Heaston as Mary in “Highway 1” and Jennie in “Down in the Valley” and Davóne Tines as Bob and Thomas in the respective pieces. Credit: Cory Weaver / Detroit Opera ...

In researching his history of tattooing in Utah for his Look Look Tattoo shop and museum — recently relocated to a larger space in Salt Lake City — CJ Fishburn discovered these notables: Fishburn was ...

The rise of suburbia. The start of the Cold War. The transition from big band to bebop. Those are some 1940s cultural trends everyone recalls. But there's another one, revisited in the new film "Blue ...

Researchers at Stockholm University in Sweden and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee studied historic observatory photos to find signs of flashes of light. The researchers then drew a statistical ...

Folk music might have reached its peak mainstream popularity in the 1960s, but without the groundwork laid by the music of the 1940s, the folk revival in musical hubs like New York City in the 60s ...

A print from local artist Gustavo Jaimes sums up the swagger and charisma that surrounds classic lowrider culture. “More Bounce to the Ounce,” reads the digital and silk screen artwork. At its center ...

Caught between his political and aesthetic commitments, the painter, photographer, and illustrator has suffered the fate of misapprehension. When the last major Ben Shahn retrospective opened almost ...