Patton Oswalt, Martin Scorsese, Seth Rogen and more examine 1975 as a key cultural and historical turning point.

Capitalism: A Global History’ by Sven Beckert “Any book about capitalism that begins almost 900 years ago in the port city of ...

Funk You Up” had a playful chorus that mimicked a game of musical chairs: “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, ...

In 1969, after filming “The Mind of Mr. Soames” — his 10th film in a decade during which he had been, according to one critic ...

Netflix documentary explores how a crisis period for the country yielded an unprecedented number of masterpieces ...

A Currier & Ives print, published in the mid- to late 19th century, depicts Crow’s Nest, a mountain along the Hudson’s west bank. Library of Congress For millennia before steamships busied the river’s ...

Stone Mountain wasn’t just a big rock in Georgia. It was the heart of an empire. In 1887, the Venable brothers bought this mountain for $48,000 and changed American building forever. Soon, their ...

The Stone of Scone, also known as the Stone of Destiny, is a treasured relic of history in Great Britain, used for centuries as an accompaniment to the coronation of kings. This 152 kg (335 lb) ...

Even if it’s just a movie, Sheen acknowledged being dropped for Cruise was “a big deal,” adding: “It was also the betrayal factor of it. So I was like, ‘OK, all right.’ You know, Oliver’s been a fan ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

Oliver Wang, a sociology professor and author at Cal State Long Beach, spent years griping to his friends about the lack of Asian American representation in Southern California’s car history. “I was ...

Carolyn Krause presents more 19th century Oliver Springs history based on “Circling Windrock Mountain: Two Hundred Years in Appalachia,” the 1998 book written by Augusta Grove Bell. In the 1960s, she ...