Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike. Until he died in 1946, the spindly, black-caped little man was also a prophetic educator in the cause of modern art. His ...
One of the most heavily attended events in Mattapoisett took place on November 23 when Linda Coombs of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah was Invited to talk about her book Colonization and the Wampanoag ...
She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most ...
In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...
When you take a photo, the world stands still. The moment you captured stays the same forever, offering future generations a ...
Alice Loxton doesn’t believe history should be boring or academic. As “History Alice,” she connects with millions of people ...
Stumped on a holiday gift? Reach for a coffee-table book. They’re not only interesting conversation starters, but they also ...
The August 2026 total solar eclipse will pass above beautiful destinations such as Greenland, Iceland, Portugal, and Spain.
Thomas Mann’s intellectual masterpiece is interested in time, love, mortality, culture – and the fragility of civilisation.