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Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

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Speaking on her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing ...

Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...

Across the wide plains of central Europe some 20,000 years ago, small bands of people began their days preparing for work. Men and women alike readied their tools: some for hunting, some for gathering ...

They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.

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Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...