Passionate about decorative arts, design history, or material culture? Eager to discover how object-based study can advance your curatorial and scholarly interests? Attend an open house at Bard ...

Three Ph.D. candidates in history—Emily Wells, Jennifer Merriman, and Qiong Wu—received Boswell-Caracci Material Culture Study Fund grants to reach beyond campus and their primary fields to connect ...

The most perceptive joke to air on American television in the last 10 years goes something like this: Attorney Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), liberal lioness of “The Good Fight,” awakes one ...

National consumption shifts since 1900: from asphalt and zinc to chickens and gallium: Apparent inflection point for American materialization: 1970 (1st Earth Day) A new study documents the dramatic ...

Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout history, many definitions have been proposed to describe what we mean when we talk about culture, leading to considerable confusion. But while ...

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The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is finally here. The nominees will face off this evening in Philadelphia at the National ...

Former President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he did not win the 2020 presidential election, telling podcaster Lex Fridman that he "lost by a whisker." Fridman asked the Republican nominee ...

MATERIAL GIRL. Your first associations with this glamorous phrase might be Madonna’s 1984 hit of the same name. However, if you’re active on TikTok, or virtually anywhere on the internet at this point ...

Diet culture is a set of myths and expectations around food and weight, which typically equate thinness to health and categorize foods into “good” or “bad” types. Diet culture creates a moral ...

Thanks to the generosity of adjunct professor of business law James Boswell ’86 and husband Chris Caracci, students with a passion for material culture have an unprecedented opportunity to connect ...