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Articles with keyword "Europe"

Detail from "Journey of the Magi"

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Faces of the Renaissance

By Mary Kay Zuravleff

A new exhibition at the Walters Museum explores race and identity to ask the burning question, Who's your daddy?

Elizabeth Brown Pryor (center)

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Letters From Robert E. Lee

Elizabeth Brown Pryor talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her dual careers as a historian of antebellum America and a highly decorated diplomat working for the State Department.

Helen Clay Frick standing, wearing black trench coat, in Belgium.

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All the Art

By Amy Lifson

The records division at the Frick continues working toward the great goal of its founder.

Portrait of Gouverneur Morris

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Ungoverned Passion

By Meredith Hindley

Founding Father and ladies' man Gouverneur Morris flees revolutionary Paris to discover the delights of central Europe.

Genevieve receiving King Mark's letter

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Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People

By Katy Werlin

A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.

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Anne Frank: In Family Photos

By Laura Wolff Scanlan

Texas views the life of Anne Frank through her father's photos.

Image of Escape from Paris by Allan Drummond.

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The Great Escape

By Sarah Stewart Taylor

New Hampshire remembers the authors of Curious George and their escape from Paris.

David Livingstone, circa 1865.

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Livingstone in a New Light

By Anna Maria Gillis

Long indecipherable letters, written in ink made from crushed seeds, are now readable through spectral imaging.

Sketch of Kierkegaard by Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840.

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The Fork And The Shrink

By Gordon Marino

Kierkegaard was a psychologist of sorts, but unlike Freud he believed in God.

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Impertinent Questions with John B. Hench

By Meredith Hindley

On how books were used as weapons.