1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1187+ words) In 1928, nearly 200 runners toed the line to cross America in a race so tough it earned the nickname the “Bunion Derby.” Nearly 200 men started the 1928 coast-to-coast footrace that was designed to promote the newly established Route 66. The 1928 Transcontinental Foot Race,…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (224+ words) A split-second act of peaceful defiance became one of the defining images of the Vietnam War era. October 21, 1967: As military police block access to the Pentagon, protester George Harris places carnations in gun barrels as a symbolic act of peace....

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1531+ words) On August 13, 1961, Berlin woke up to a city divided by barbed wire and armed guards. Construction crews of the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic erecting the Berlin Wall. After the Allied victory in World War II, Germany…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (544+ words) Troops and military supplies traversed the Mother Road throughout the early 1940s. Although no longer an official U.S. highway, Route 66 endures in the popular imagination as a symbol of freedom on the road, a path where adventurous souls can leave behind the…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (448+ words) The women who answered lonely pioneers' newspaper ads didn't just find husbands—they helped build frontier communities. What most of these men neglected to bring was women. The resulting shortage fueled the rise of America's so-called mail-order brides—women who…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (536+ words) Long before artists became brands, Dalí used film, television, advertising and his larger-than-life public persona to bring Surrealism far beyond the museum. Few artists are as instantly recognizable as Salvador Dalí. The melting clocks from his 1931 masterpiece “The Persistence of…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (176+ words) The family of late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee donated over 23,000 artworks to the Korean public. One of the largest cultural gifts in modern history, the Lee Kun-Hee collection spans millennia and connects thousands of years of Korean art history and…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (536+ words) Hollywood film noir gave voice to a nation grappling with trauma, uncertainty and a growing sense of moral ambiguity. Actor Humphrey Bogart plays private eye Sam Spade, a quintessential film noir antihero, in 'The Maltese Falcon' (1941). This 1944 American propaganda film…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (896+ words) Here's how Homer's 'Odyssey’ inspired artists from James Joyce to the Coen Brothers. Still from 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' (2000), based on Homer's 'Odyssey.' Few stories have endured like "The Odyssey." Although there's no consensus about when Homer first composed…...

5+ day, 18+ min ago   (871+ words) Barbie and Oppenheimer, two very different summer blockbusters, open in theaters on the same day. “Barbenheimer” becomes a huge box office success and instant pop-culture phenomenon. In an era dominated by movie franchises, both films demonstrated the appeal of original…...