Vice Provost for the Arts John Brown will step down on June 30 to return to the Duke faculty and focus on arts practice, ...

Trapped in Harpers Ferry, John Brown made his last stand against the U.S. Army. His fight for freedom would change history ...

Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event that showed how polarized the nation had become over slavery. An event that ...

Did genre painting exist in the early twentieth century? This question forms the premise of John Fagg’s Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945.

"Obviously, you're never going to know what it's really like until you get into that situation. But this is probably the ...