Who’s smarter; would make a good ally; hold a group together? The ability to tell has shaped our world. How is this changing in the digital era? Take a look.

In a city as beautiful as Florence, which feels equal parts like a Renaissance jewel box and a vibrant living city, a room with a view (as in E.M. Forster’s immortal novel of the same name, based in ...

Painters across the centuries have turned this most intimate of transgressions into art, inviting viewers to become voyeurs ...

In the last two decades, mass digitization has dramatically changed the landscape of scholarly research. The ability to search digital transcriptions ...

Art history is not a discipline separate from history in the broader sense, let alone a genteel pastime disconnected from the ...

With its cute limestone cottages curving across green Somerset hills, Bruton has long been a handsome, if unassuming, market town. Settled since at least the 11th century, Bruton first got rich from ...

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In the last two decades, mass digitization has dramatically changed the landscape of scholarly research. The ability to search digital transcriptions of sources for specific keywords saves valuable ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

The roughly 30-piece collection once belonged in Masaryk’s London apartment and was donated by the family of his wartime secretary, Lumír Soukup. Among other things, it includes a painting by Oskar ...

People this famous would never let you anywhere near their houses when they were alive, but now you can walk right inside!

But booking a historical hotel or Airbnb rental with a storied past—tales of tenants, centuries-old architecture, or whatever ...