Opinion
Let’s Preserve Acts of History, Not Racist Monuments
We do not need to physically preserve these objects to preserve history. The Toppled Monuments Archive seeks to reroute the impulse to preserve these objects altogether.
History
Art
Satisfy Your Wanderlust With Captivating Globes From the 17th and 18th Centuries
The British Library uploaded 3-D scans of its collection of celestial and terrestrial globes.
History
Conserving the Art and Legacy of Spain's First Recorded Female Artist
Once the official sculptor in the court of the last Habsburg king, Luisa Roldán is easily the most famous sculptor you’ve never heard of.
History
Unearthing Canada’s Impressionist Legacy
Canada and Impressionism closes an art-historical gap on the Canadian artists who made the journey to France — most of whom are little known or studied — and explores what happened when they went back home.
History
Tracing the Lives of 10 Jewish Children Who Escaped Nazi-occupied Territories
My family's lore holds that my great-uncle was one of the 10,000 children who were sent to Britain to be fostered wherever they could.
Art
A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories
Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.
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How New York Women, from Village Bohemians to Suffragettes, Won the Right to Vote
In 1917, female New Yorkers were finally invited to the polling booths. An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society argues this victory was largely due to the local activism of the bohemians of Greenwich Village.
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50 Years Ago Today, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage Played Chess
Spoiler alert: Cage lost … twice.
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The Egyptian Artifacts of a Little-Known, Victorian-Era Woman Collector
An exhibition at the Atkinson Art Gallery and Library sheds light on the somewhat mysterious 19th-century scholar and collector Anne Goodison.
History
The History of One of the Oldest Astronomical Clocks in the World
While Prague's famed clock is gone for repairs, we take a look at its history.
History
How Trompe-L’Oeil Added Information and Ornamentation to Maps
Look But Don't Touch: Tactile Illusions on Maps at the Harvard Map Collection explores how cartographers have used trompe l'oeil illustrations on maps.
History
Vintage Postcards Will Send You on a Whimsical Roadtrip Across the US
Chicago's Newberry Library has acquired and digitized the nation's largest trove of postcards and related materials.