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The darling of the silent-film industry led the way on many cinematic innovations of the era.

Antisemitic critics poisoned the works of Gustav Mahler for fin-de-siècle Viennese audiences.

What the White Album says about us.

One a patriot, one a spy—two wives of the American Revolution.

Geometric art connects different cultures.

Latino Americans, a sweeping new documentary, chronicles the experiences of Hispanics in the United States.

Young TR takes on the War of 1812.

Before and after Brown in Prince Edward County, Virginia

What happened when Stéphane Mallarmé reimagined the book

A Boston Brahmin, a poet, a woman in love, she was all this and more.

Scott Russell balances the interests of locals and newcomers in the Northern Mariana Islands.

On the long reach of Adam Smith.

For nineteenth-century sailor, tattoos both smoothed the way and caused alarm.

Mountain division captured high ground in WW II.

California museum has good roadside manner.

Collection of vintage postcards leaves its stamp.

Veterans' voices shape a new play in Minnesota.

An Alabama girl married into a revolution in Costa Rica.

The moral and political dilemmas of the time seem so clear in retrospect.

To understand her, you need to understand Eatonville—and vice versa.

Averroës' writings on Aristotle shaped Western philosophy as we know it.

New translations of the Bible have sought to make it accessible to everyone.

Early in the Civil War, the Union narrowly avoided war with Britain.

The celebrated bird portraitist was also a great artist of the written word.

Charles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.

An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.

Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.

The novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing

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