A companion book to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History brand-new exhibition features incredible objects ...
Editor’s Note: Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. In the introduction to her ...
Above: from the Ricci Institute's extensive collection, a Chonhado, or Cheonhado: a type of circular map of the world developed in Korea during the 17th century. The internationally acclaimed Ricci ...
Martin Puchner’s Culture: A New World History examines “the history of humans as a culture-producing species”. At the core of this statement lies the humanities, which emerges as a collective ...
Introduction: Writing Material Culture History / Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello -- Part I. The Disciplines of Material Culture -- Material Culture and History of Art(efacts) / Viccy Coltman -- ...
Even as beauty trends change, eyeliner endures. Eyeliner originated in ancient Egypt, and it’s been used for thousands of years across cultures. In Chad, young men from nomadic clans wear kohl ...
The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative and its partners are aiding in the fight to protect the country’s history and to document attempts to erase it Ihor Poshyvailo, director of the Maidan Museum ...