“Civilization is an occasional and temporary interruption of the jungle.”—Will Durant. “Civilization” or “being civilized” are not terms that are wholly easy to define. Vagaries and degrees can exist; ...

No one knows why the Hohokam Indians vanished. They had carved hundreds of miles of canals in the Sonoran Desert with stone tools and channeled the waters of the Salt and Gila Rivers to irrigate their ...

Since their origin as workwear for miners and prospectors, Levi's jeans have long been an important piece of American culture ...

A long list of lost or submerged lands and extinct civilizations couldn't see ahead, didn't care about their descendants, or cared only about the present. Foresight or the will to do anything about it ...

As the United States navigates rising geopolitical competition and a rapidly evolving digital economy, one of our most effective yet underused assets is American culture. From film and fashion to ...