Bach’s most influential pedagogical work turns 300 this year. But what’s so “well-tempered” about this clavier, and what’s a “clavier,” anyway?

The first feature-length zombie movie emerged from Haitians’ longstanding association of the living dead with slavery and exploited labor.

If Dracula represented the collective fears of his day, what do the likes of Slender Man and other internet monsters tell us about the zeitgeist of right now?

As preservationists grapple with crumbling monuments in Brazil and Peru, they’re also confronting the progressive agendas that originally shaped the buildings.

Song sharks have been a problem for aspiring lyricists nearly as long as there’s been a music industry.

Though her writing career opened in an inauspicious manner, Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

The French painter Edgar Degas was Impressionism’s most energetic and inventive frame designer.

One of the sharpest female journalists of Britain’s Victorian era, Eastlake considered Jane Eyre an exercise in rudeness and vulgarity.

Scholars of politics and media have been tracking an ongoing collapse of trust in representative democracy's core institutions. What's at stake?

The groundbreaking team at Milestone Comics infused Static, Hardware and their other creations with Afrocentric dynamism, paving the way for T’Challa’s mainstream success.