Before He Rose to Power, Adolf Hitler Staged a Coup and Went to Prison
The Beer Hall Putsch was a spectacular failure. It also set the stage for Nazi Germany
What Did These Two Ticket Holders See on the Night of Abraham Lincoln's Assassination?
A rare pair of Ford's Theatre tickets—for seats across from the president's box—have sold for $262,500
Why the Talking Heads' 40-Year-Old Concert Film Still Mesmerizes
"Stop Making Sense," known as one of the greatest movies of its kind, returns to the big screen
Virginia Woolf Scorned Fashion but Couldn't Escape It
A new exhibition investigates the Bloomsbury Group's relationship with clothing, accessories and sartorial social norms
Manet's 'Olympia' Comes to America for the Very First Time
The painting scandalized 19th-century viewers and heralded the dawn of modern art
X-Wing Model From Original 'Star Wars' Movie Found in a Garage
The 20-inch miniature is going to auction, where bidding starts at $200,000
Ernest Hemingway and His Wife Survived Two Plane Crashes Just One Day Apart
The novelist recounted the harrowing ordeal in a letter, which just sold for $237,055 at auction
A Time Capsule Opened Live on Stage Was Empty. Later, Treasures Emerged From the Silt
Found at West Point, the 200-year-old box concealed six silver coins and a medal
A Brief History of the Mug Shot
Police have been using the snapshots in criminal investigations since the advent of commercial photography
Virgil Quotation Found Etched on 1,800-Year-Old Roman Jar
Researchers say the ancient inscription is the first of its kind ever discovered
The 150-Year-Old Comstock Act Could Transform the Abortion Debate
Once considered a relic of moral panics past, the 1873 law criminalized sending "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials through the mail
Without the First Folio, Half of Shakespeare's Plays Would Have Been Lost to History
The 400-year-old text presented the Bard's plays as serious literature, muddling the boundaries between popular culture and high art
Venus Williams Is Joining a New Push to Restore Nina Simone's Childhood Home
The singer-songwriter learned to play the piano in the 650-square-foot house
How Artists' Day Jobs Shape Their Craft
A new exhibition examines the generative relationship between work and creativity
Artificial Intelligence Identifies Long-Overlooked Raphael Masterpiece
A facial recognition analysis found that the faces in a mysterious painting are virtually identical to those in the artist's "Sistine Madonna"
Three Pioneering Scholars Who Died This Year
They believed that the stories of marginalized communities were worth chronicling
These Works Are Now in the Public Domain
The latest additions are a rich trove of books, films, songs and other works from 1927
Stephen Sondheim’s Lost College Musical Was Found Hidden in Plain Sight
Live recordings from "Phinney's Rainbow" had been sitting on a journalist's bookshelf for years
The Making of Steven Spielberg
"The Fabelmans" is a lightly fictionalized dramatization of the famous director's childhood
These Descendants Never Forgot the Story of the Last American Slave Ship
A new Netflix documentary follows the families of the "Clotilda" captives as they grapple with how their past informs their future
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