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What honor required of men.

Mississippi photographer O. N. Pruitt documented the beautiful and the horrible

A new exhibition traces the paranormal in American art

New Hampshire

Alma Thomas’s paintings revealed her gift for color and pattern

Mississippi

Outsiders and several important women of letters were drawn to the cult of Goethe.

Speaking truth to power

In the Gilded Age, he was a trailblazing international superstar of cycling

A picture-perfect camera

From ancient philosophy to modern-day Boston, the search for wisdom and justice finds expression in a gritty new film 

A first-year English teacher and the heresies of Robert Frost 

The Washington, D.C., artist celebrated beauty above all 

The Crowd, the Crown, and What Came After

Inside the row houses, hair salons, and bingo games of a lost era

An interview with the author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

In Kansas, Phil Dixon recalls the Monarchs and other barnstorming teams from the Jim Crow era

Nick Cave's curious creation