Our association of pink with femininity is a recent innovation.

Charles Darwin took a copy of Patrick Syme's book, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, with him on his Beagle voyage in 1831 and used it to make natural history observations. A new partnership between ...

This collection of papers from the 2012 Arts & Letters Conference, hosted by the University of North Georgia, explores how color can provide clues to the interpretation of history and politics, works ...

More than a third of books banned last year featured fictional characters or real person of color, a new analysis from PEN America shows.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: An American Family Memoir, by Martha S. Jones When Martha S. Jones was a ...

Historian Martha S. Jones found a remarkable and complicated story of identity, race and belonging as she researched her own ...