Late 19th Century
Renoir's Controversial Second Act
Late in life, the French impressionist's career took an unexpected turn. A new exhibition showcases his radical move toward tradition
February 2010 |
By Richard Covington
The Changing Definition of African-American
How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American
February 2010 |
By Ira Berlin
Phineas Gage: Neuroscience's Most Famous Patient
An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history's most famous brain-injury survivor
January 2010 |
By Steve Twomey
Sherlock Holmes' London
As the detective stalks movie theaters, our reporter tracks down the favorite haunts of Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous sleuth
January 2010 |
By Joshua Hammer
Man-Eaters of Tsavo
They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions. Their ancestors were vilified more than 100 years ago as the man-eaters of Tsavo
January 2010 |
By Paul Raffaele
The Ghost Wineries of Napa Valley
In the peaks and valleys of California’s wine country, vinters remember the region’s rich history and rebuild for the future
October 27, 2009 |
By Matt Kettmann
Ka’iulani: Hawaii’s Island Rose
In a brief life filled with loss, Princess Ka’iulani established her legacy
May 08, 2009 |
By Janet Hulstrand
Finding Feisty Fungi in Antarctica
In a place where no one believed they existed–-treeless Antartica–wood fungi are feasting on polar exploration relics
May 2009 |
By Emily Stone
Van Gogh's Night Visions
For Vincent Van Gogh, fantasy and reality merged after dark in some of his most enduring paintings, as a new exhibition reminds us
January 2009 |
By Paul Trachtman
Botticelli Comes Ashore
With the purchase of Botticelli’s Death of Lucretia, Isabella Stewart Gardner took American collecting in a new direction
August 12, 2008 |
By Cynthia Saltzman
John Muir's Yosemite
The father of the conservation movement found his calling on a visit to the California wilderness
July 2008 |
By Tony Perrottet
About Carleton Watkins
On the life and career of the 19th-century American landscape photographer who captured Yosemite in stereo
July 2008 |
By Bruce Hathaway
Spirals of History
Hand-carved elephant tusks tell the story of life in the Congolese colonies of the late 1800s
April 2008 |
By Owen Edwards
Letters from Vincent
Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist
January 2008 |
By Arthur Lubow
A Brief History of the Orient Express
Spies used it as a secret weapon. A president tumbled from it. Hitler wanted it destroyed. Just what made this train so intriguing?
March 01, 2007 |
By David Zax
Americans in Paris
In the late 19th century, the City of Light beckoned Whistler, Sargent, Cassatt and other young artists. As a new exhibition makes clear, what they experienced would transform American art
January 2007 |
By Arthur Lubow
Chief Lobbyist
He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers.
June 2005 |
By Anne Broache
A Painter of Angels Became the Father of Camouflage
Turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Thayer created images of timeless beauty and a radical theory of concealing coloration
April 1999 |
By Richard Meryman
The Vote That Failed
Old style ballots cast illegally in Indiana helped topple a president then he helped topple them
November 1998 |
By S.J. Ackerman
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