Document Deep Dive: A Peek at the Last Time London Hosted the Olympics
Records at the National Archives in London show how organizers cobbled together the 1948 "Austerity" Games
July 31, 2012 |
By Megan Gambino
Gene Krupa: a Drummer with Star Power
Rising to fame with the Benny Goodman band, Gene Krupa was the first superstar drummer
March 2011 |
By Owen Edwards
An American Who Died Fighting for Indonesia's Freedom
Bobby Freeberg, a 27-year-old pilot from Kansas, disappeared while flying a supply-filled cargo plane over the Indonesian jungle
March 23, 2010 |
By Simon Montlake
Joyce Carol Oates Goes Home Again
The celebrated writer returns to the town of her birth to revisit the places that haunt her memory and her extraordinary fiction
March 2010 |
By Joyce Carol Oates
Norman Rockwell's Neighborhood
A new book offers a revealing look at how the artist created his homey illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post
December 2009 |
By Richard B. Woodward
Decoding Jackson Pollock
Did the Abstract Expressionist hide his name amid the swirls and torrents of a legendary 1943 mural?
November 2009 |
By Henry Adams
Saving Punjab
A Sikh architect is helping to preserve cultural sites in the north Indian state still haunted by 1947’s heart-wrenching Partition
September 2009 |
By Geoffrey C. Ward
Weegee's Day at the Beach
For the noir photographer Weegee, bathers at Coney Island had another kind of gritty reality
June 2009 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
A Green Addition to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Meeting House
Architects of the First Unitarian Society’s new eco-friendly addition find inspiration in the ideas of original architect Frank Lloyd Wright
May 21, 2009 |
By Laura Kearney
Family of Man's Special Delivery
It took three generations to produce Wayne F. Miller's photograph of his newborn son
February 2009 |
By Owen Edwards
Gathering Rosebuds
Did a Native American actress inspire one of Hollywood's most celebrated symbols?
January 2007 |
By Owen Edwards
New Faces of 1946
An unpopular president. A war-weary people. In the midterm elections of 60 years ago, voters took aim at incumbents
November 2006 |
By William E. Leuchtenburg
A Darkness in Donora
When smog killed 20 people in a Pennsylvania mill town in 1948, the clean air movement got its start
November 1999 |
By Edwin Kiester, Jr.
