H. F. du Pont's masterpiece of horticulture.
By Tom Christopher
Pinpointing a home of the first Indo-European speakers is a charged task that David Anthony takes seriously.
By Andrew Lawler
Great art meets folk art at Vermont’s Shelburne Museum
By Sarah Stewart Taylor
Numerous translations of Don Quixote, some made without knowledge of Spanish, attest to the novel’s long reach.
By Ilan Stavans
The great writer lives on in cartoons and comic books.
By Edward Lawrence
Russian music and mentoring create an unlikely colony of artists.
By Joseph Horowitz
The choreography of Ulysses Dove lives on in New Orleans.
By Michaela Cannon
Insider advice on the ins and outs of grant writing.
By Meredith Hindley
Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg set the standards for art in the 1950s.
By James Panero
How a stilted grad student changed the way we look at museums.
By Daniel Scheuerman
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta