Articles with keyword "twentieth century"
In Focus
Georgia’s Jamil Zainaldin
Through Georgia's online encyclopedia, Jamil Zainaldin helps disseminate the state's historical gems.
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Burying Molière
How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.
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Great Scott!
In an “abandoned tramp’s hotel that had become too filthy even for the tramps,” a bohemian circle of actors, writers, and society figures founded Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in 1919, one of the fi
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Remains of the Day
By Between June 14 and July 27, 1794, hundreds of nobles, shopkeepers, clergy, corset makers, vintners, and other “suspicious” citizens were executed by guillotine at Place de la Nation in Paris.
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Impertinent Questions with Edwin L. Battistella
On the self-help career of grammarian Sherwin Cody.
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Portrait of the Artist Before and After
Thomas Hart Benton was famous when he wrote his autobiography, forgotten when he updated it.
