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The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
March 22, 2025No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
March 21, 2025On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...
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The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
March 21, 2025America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
March 20, 2025Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
March 20, 2025Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
March 20, 2025“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
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Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
March 20, 2025President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
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All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
March 19, 2025How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
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The Paintings of Tom Palmore
March 19, 2025"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
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3 Reasons to Kick the Smoking Habit and How to Get Started
March 19, 2025While smoking has been seeing a steady decline across the United States due to a better...
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Stephen Baker Discusses The Numerati
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Art
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March 18, 2025Duane Michals expressed it well when he said, “Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is...
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Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
March 18, 2025Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
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Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
March 18, 2025Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
March 17, 2025Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
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