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In a crossover between academia and pop culture, the Puerto Rican megastar has blessed the book "Puerto Rico: A National ...

U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy hails 'DDLJ' musical's Manchester premiere as symbol of growing ties with India.

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The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

A piece of the Lucknow Residency, besieged by Indian sepoys during the revolt of 1857, reflects how colonialism haunts modern ...

Trump’s appeal stems from the way he combines restoration and revolution. His reactionary modernism may have beguiled Silicon ...

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The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the ...

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