On the odd and brainy Claiborne Pell
By Meredith Hindley
On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.
On the "commons" of intellectual property.
By David Skinner
Was Arthur Schopenhauer a dog person?.
By David Skinner (Edited by)
On how books were used as weapons.
On the private life of Emily Post.
By Meredith Hindley (Edited by)
On the elusive Cleopatra.
On the self-help career of grammarian Sherwin Cody.
On the life of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
By Meredith Hindley (edited by)
On the creative life of Orson Welles.
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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
