cultural history
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cultural histories
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a study or account of a society's past that focuses on aspects of culture, such as the development of ideas, the arts, religion, lifestyle, etc., rather than primarily political events.
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a study or account of a particular period in the past that compares and contrasts major cultures active at the time in terms of their rise and fall and the forces at work, including contact with each other and mutual influence.
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Readers looking for a cultural history of Shanghai, however, will need to look elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Rebuilding Leonardo's genetic profile would mark a major milestone in both science and cultural history.
From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026
As the lead advocate for the proposed Amargosa Basin National Monument, she is working to protect this entire corridor — the river, wetlands and deep cultural history stitched through these desert valleys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
She is author of six other books of nonfiction, a professor of literary and cultural history who has taught at multiple universities, and an internationally recognized wine writer and a winemaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
The massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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