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“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.

We know where this is all headed.

After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view.

How a 1908 racist riot in President Abraham Lincoln's Illinois hometown helped lead to the creation of the NAACP.

A classic with a kick.

Jim Jordan’s bid for Speaker of the House is failing, and it represents the how the GOP has prioritized personal interest over governing.

Is it “music’s biggest night” if it sidelines the world's soundtrack?

A new adaptation shows how rich Alice Walker’s novel is and how the source material can lend itself to unconventional storytelling.

In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water.

Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.