Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical ...

"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

An enigmatic early-1800s author (or is it 1974?) writes defining principles on how to swim with literal sharks and in the ...

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For years, public-health authorities downplayed the risk that pathogens could spread via droplets light enough to circulate ...

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Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

I have not yet found St. Joseph de Kent, but I have been reading some interesting books in the search for it. Today, I would ...

This book, as Richard Reid explains at the outset ... and made possible the partition of the continent in the late 19th century – indeed, that in some cases, these internal changes actively ...

The result is a show to make you "fall in love" with the impressionists and their precursors all over again. Featuring two ...

Joshua Hammer’s engaging new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle ... lost for 150 generations and was opaque not only to its 19th-century finder but also to everyone else, including practitioners ...