February 08, 2019
The Rest Is History
Family trees, ancient sewers and canals, and Dear Abby.
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February 07, 2019
How to Cure the Cares, Fears, and Sorrows of Insomnia
The author of Milk of Paradise on a remedy from the past not to try at home.
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February 06, 2019
This Fashionable Distemper
The poetry—and male prerogative—of venereal disease in the eighteenth century.
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February 04, 2019
William James and the Spiritualist’s Phone
A story of a philosopher, his sister, and belief.
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February 01, 2019
The Rest Is History
Unfinished paintings, portraits of ladies, and ancient quinoa.
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January 25, 2019
The Rest Is History
Tidying up tombs and rooms with help from museums and self-help gurus past and present.
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January 24, 2019
How to Mobilize a Movement
The author of The Weight of a Piano gets inspiration from a documentary.
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January 21, 2019
Capturing Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis
Looking at 1968 through the eyes of photographer Ernest Withers.
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Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
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Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
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Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.