It Belongs in a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner builds a place to house her art

A Jorge Luis Borges Reading List

A Collection of Human Errors: Assessing the Distant Past

A Fresh Twist to a Knot: A Year with Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin

Out It Goes: The Difficulty of Being John Constable

The House of His Desires: The life and legacy of al-Hallaj

A medieval account of Egyptian burial practices and tomb robbers

The Malice of Time: Neglect history at your peril

The Calamities of Others: An ancient historian aims for the big picture

Profitable to Posterity: Who should write history?

Immortal by Default: A brief history of humans and the ginkgo tree

Policing the Necropolis

Working Arrangement

Rate the Room: The early history of rating credit in America

Imagining utopia–and condemning excess–during the Enlightenment

Now Be Still: Dispatching Shakespeare’s Bodies

The Summer Is over Alas Alas

Profile Picture: Stories of diplomatic portraiture

The several deaths of François Vatel

Fiction Is History: A journey through Joseph Conrad’s life at sea

Panic at the Library

The Song of the Summer: A Heian-era epistolary romance

Coming Attraction: Charles Morton wonders where birds come from (1685)

Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation

1916: Ambassador Henry Morgenthau protests the expulsion of Armenians

A Brief History of Frankincense

Forced Perspective: Sir William Jones gets lost in translation

The Ornatrices of Londinium

Flower Power

The last days of William Blake

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