That series encapsulated the Western civilization narrative that people, at least in Europe and North America, used for most of the past centuries to explain their place in the world and in time.

What is “Western Civilization”? When did the idea of the “West” become a commonplace, and what has it meant over the course of time? What role should the teaching of Western Civilization play in today ...

Humanities courses in America’s best universities are apt these days to denigrate, or even deny the reality of, Western civilization. Rare are classes devoted to transmitting Western ...

American Primeval isn’t going to be reinventing the Western genre anytime soon, if that wasn’t already apparent. Revisionist Westerns — in which there are no black and white hats, no noble ...

Civilizations reworks Kenneth Clark’s famous BBC documentary series Civilisation (1969). That series focused solely on the medieval and modern art traditions of Western Europe.