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A shelf of weathered leather bound books

Arts & Culture

The First English Books

In the rare book world, the earliest printed books are known as incunables or incunabula.

A black and white portrait photograph of Herman Melville.

Arts & Culture

Melville Reborn, Again and Again

A scholar traces Herman Melville's reputation in American and British literary circles.

Arts & Culture

Maya Angelou Has Died

Maya Angelou has died.

Editors' Picks

Politics & History

Thurgood Marshall

In a speech marking the bicentennial of the US Constitution, Marshall argued that its framers intentionally inscribed slavery into the American economy.

Politics & History

Building the Olympic Games

A close connection between architecture, athletics, and the urban fabric is central to the idea of the modern Olympic Games.

Politics & History

Policing the Holocaust in Paris

Unlike in the rest of Nazi-occupied Europe, the arrest of Jewish people was largely in the hands of ordinary policemen in France, especially in Paris.

Arts & Culture

Dorothy Richardson and the Stream of Consciousness

Though often associated with Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, “stream of consciousness” novels spilled first from the pen of British modernist Dorothy Richardson.

Education & Society

Endangered: North American Cricket

Cricket was played and cheered in the United States and Canada in the nineteenth century. Why did it fall out of favor with sports fans?

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