Almost 1800 years after Rome’s founding, the people we call Byzantines still thought of themselves as part of the same ...

Jill Lepore’s “We the People” examines amendments as engines of change. And “History Matters” offers insights from the late ...

Twelve Churches is a survey of Christian attitudes toward various topics — beauty, power, and money — as they were expressed ...

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.

This month, the University of Pennsylvania Press is publishing a landmark three-volume history of Philadelphia — The Greater Philadelphia Region, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation, and Greater ...

Portraiture has a long history. The earliest naturalistic portraits were made by the Egyptians, even if in most cases the ...

From religious tales to crime thrillers, here are the Martin Scorsese movies that we'll never get to see. Martin Scorsese is ...

The answers to these questions seem to me to be fairly obvious, and render the rest of the conversation about the finer ...

In “Primordial Forms,” artists Cynthia Kirkwood, Terry Ekasala and Grace DeGennaro explore symmetry and contrast at the Phoenix.

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl ...

We cannot but sympathise with those who lament the destruction of American democracy as they see the rule of law dissolve ...

A new book by founding Rock and Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi pulls back the curtain on the highly secretive institution.