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Articles with keyword "twentieth century"

cover of Proud to Be

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A Soldier's Words

An anthology of writings by veterans.

Building a tub boat.

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School of Hard Knots

It takes patience and cunning to learn the traditional way of Japanese boats.

Lady Bird Johnson and hostesses aboard the Lady Bird Special

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Lady Bird Special

The first First Lady to hit the campaign trail without her husband

Dust jacket, Nights Out

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Tasteful Pleasures

Corner Houses Were an Anchoring Presence in Cosmopolitan Soho.

A still from "The Soul of Youth." 1920

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Film as Argument

The early disputatious days of American movies.

Portrait of Carl Sandburg

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A Workingman's Poet

Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.

Still from "The Red Shoes"

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Saving Grace

How the Film Foundation restored The Red Shoes and is preserving cinematic history.

Boxcar Bertha

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Knowing the Scorsese

A Selective Filmography

Lev Tolstoy, 1908

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Done with Tolstoy

Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.

Book cover with image of Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five

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Vaudevillian Jazzman

Louis Armstrong's "clarinetisms."