At the very beginning of the “Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols” (1972), the book’s author and one of the era’s most accomplished industrial designers, Henry ...

France’s last Bourbon king, the would-be absolute monarch Charles X, was overthrown in a sudden uprising during an 1830 Parisian heat wave. Also known as the Three Glorious Days, the July Revolution ...

It is easy to minimize the importance of symbols in culture. Art tends to focus on existential symbolism, leap-frogging over the ways in which we interpret symbols constantly, in the form of letters, ...

We preselected all newsletters you had before unsubscribing.

Arts & Culture In Minneapolis, red knit hats become a symbol of resistance among protesters NPR | By Hosts Published February 10, 2026 at 4:43 AM EST ...