Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost writers of Black folklore, she died in obscurity.

One of the most unexpected songs of the 1960s hit No. 1 exactly 60 years ago today—and went on to become the biggest hit of ...

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales Get this in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for Five Great Reads here. Dear readers, this week ...

Herod the Great reshaped Judea through monumental building, ruthless rule, and loyalty to Rome, but his death exposed deep social, religious, and political fractures. This chapter traces how Roman ...

For centuries, most of the world’s economies grew at a similarly slow rate. However, a “Great Divergence” occurred with the Industrial Revolution, causing industrializing nations to accelerate their ...

Not content to just put out one twisty movie at the holiday season with Wake Up Dead Man, Netflix decided to open the floodgates – pun fully intended – with South Korean disaster movie The Great Flood ...

Netflix’s latest Korean blockbuster The Great Flood has surged to the top of the platform’s global charts for nonglobal films, but audiences are divided over its cryptic ending and philosophical twist ...

Readings: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Colossians 3:12-21 or 3:12-17 Mt 2:13-15, 19-23 History calls him Herod the Great, but no one could call him a family man. To gain the Judean throne through a second, ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants and toddlers to exterminate his rival, the baby Jesus. He is reviled in ...

The 1960s was a decade of change and expansion in Major League Baseball. MLB entered the decade with just 16 teams, split evenly between the American and National Leagues. But the sport was booming, ...

Eleanor the Great, which marks Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, is new on digital streaming. Read on to find out where you can watch the movie at home. Rated PG-13, Eleanor The Great also stars ...

So what came between? The ’60s, of course. Within that decade there were quite a few truly formidable trendsetters. Some of them haven’t aged well, mostly because 60 or so years of advancing ...