How This Self-Taught Guitarist Became a Music Legend
Look closely at Libba Cotten’s 1950 Martin guitar, part of the Sounding American Music exhibition at the National Museum of American History, and you may be able to see the…
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An Absolutely Fabulous Celebration of History’s Greatest Divas
Left, Rita Moreno, the Puerto Rican actress who played Anita in the 1961 film West Side Story. Right, the Italian opera singer Giulia Grisi in the 1830s. Getty Images Bottled…
How Engineers Created a Flying ‘Star Wars’ X-Wing
Kelyn Soong Freelance Writer Seeing a Star Wars X-wing starfighter won’t require a trip to a galaxy far, far away. This year, just in time for May 4—Star Wars Day—the…
How Museums Are Preserving and Celebrating Selena’s Legacy
Fans hold a photo of Selena during the ceremony honoring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017. Tara Ziemba / AFP via Getty Images Selena…
Before Beyonce and Taylor Swift Ran the World, There Was Joan Baez
Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Images by Reg Innell / John Storey / Getty Images / National Archives Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are not the first women to find great…