Sometimes the slightest crack in an otherwise solid foundation can trigger the wholesale collapse of an edifice. Such was the ...

The Atlantic Ocean isn’t just geography — it’s legacy. This vast waterway birthed the modern world by connecting Europe, ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic ...

Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute, and lecturer in Art History, Williams College The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an ...