Jens Müller, author of History of Graphic Design. Vol. 1, 1890–1959, offers up a selection of hidden gems in his remarkable new book. This guy started it all. Jules Chéret was not only a brilliant ...

"A very essential service for American culture and world culture," says graphic artist Tim Fielder of the comic book he made with historian Walter Greason. “The civil rights laws and the ...

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This edition, produced in collaboration with KCET’s Artbound, celebrates the rich history of artist-activists in the Golden State. A mercado on Beverly Boulevard in East Hollywood dons hand-painted ...

USING ART AND HUMOR TO TELL THE STORY OF HOW RACISM HAS SHAPED AMERICA STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RACIST IDEAS IN AMERICA IS A NEW TELLING OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, ...

Early computers devoid of graphical interfaces performed the exacting calculations necessary to design the atomic bomb, but they proved less than optimal for trading pictures of kittens. Early ...

Consider the phenomenon known as “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” First written in Hebrew and self-published in Israel in 2011, the book by Yuval Noah Harari found an American publisher in ...

Here’s how we learned history when I was in school: a dead guy (Mr. X) did something important (action Y) a long time ago (year Z). Memorize X, Y and Z — it will be on the test. Did I like history?

Want to know who's considered the world's first sci-fi author? Or exactly how did American science fiction begin? Perhaps what sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? A new book, "The History of ...