“The increase in the velocity of history means, among other things, that the ‘present’ becomes the ‘past’ more swiftly than ever before.” There is nothing new about man’s recording the events of his ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

A brief look at some of the most iconic images in contemporary history. From the workers having lunch during the construction of the Rockefeller Center skyscraper in New York in 1932 to the Afghan ...

The discipline of history, while continuing to produce valuable scholarship, is in a rut. The kind of methodological, conceptual and theoretical breakthroughs that took place in the 1970s—with the ...