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Hand-carved elephant tusk

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

Oversize expectations: The Great Eastern vessel

Big News

In matters of sheer magnitude, Robert Howlett got the picture
January 2008 | By Victoria Olsen

Van Gogh painted this portrait of himself

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

Mary Celeste

Abandoned Ship: the Mary Celeste

What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging
November 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Sky King

Pan Am founder Juan Trippe turned Americans into frequent fliers
November 2007 | By Owen Edwards

The Old Bailey (in 1809) was the venue for more than 100,000 criminal trials between 1674 and 1834, including all death penalty cases.

Digitizing the Hanging Court

Cutpurses! Blackguards! Fallen women! The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is an epic chronicle of crime and vice in early London. Now anyone with a computer can search all 52 million words
April 2007 | By Guy Gugliotta

Orient Express

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

Rossetti identified the subject of his Lady Lilith painting as Adam

Incurably Romantic

For much of the 20th century, Britain's Pre-Raphaelite were dismissed as overly sentimental. A new exhibition shows why they're back in favor
February 01, 2007 | By Doug Stewart

Longfellow is only the second writer to grace a U.S. stamp more than once.

Famous Once Again

Longfellow reaches his bicentennial; here's why his poems became perennial
February 2007 | By Nicholas A. Basbanes

John Singer Sargent captures the pearly light of dusk in Paris

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

The steamboat Arabia, shown here in a 1991 painting, vanished on Sep. 5, 1856.

Pay Dirt

When self-taught archaeologists dug up an 1850s steamboat, they brought to light a slice of American life
December 2006 | By Fergus M. Bordewich

The Hawleys discovered calico buttons in the Arabia.

Time Capsule

A riverboat's telltale contents included 133-year-old pickles. Want one?
December 2006 | By Fergus M. Bordewich

Abraham Lincoln

Inventive Abe

In 1849, a future president patented an ingenious addition to transportation technology.
October 2006 | By Owen Edwards

Encore! Encore!

Lorenzo Da Ponte was a hit in Europe: a courtier, a cad, the librettist for Mozart's finest operas. But the New World truly tested his creative powers.
September 2006 | By Christopher Porterfield

Scourges of the sea: Dashing Jean Laffite (left) and his swashbuckling brother Alexandre, although a study in contrasts, were equally intrepid.

Saving New Orleans

In a new book, "Patriot Fire," the author of "Forrest Gump" paints an uncommonly vivid picture of an overlooked chapter in American history -- and its unlikely hero.
August 2006 | By Winston Groom

Balloon Jupiter had to land after 30 miles; its mail (here) was sent on by train.

Airmail Letter

Stale Mail: The nation's first hot-air balloon postal deliveries barely got off the ground.
August 2006 | By Owen Edwards

Camelot

In the mid-1800's, "ships of the desert" reported for duty in the Southwest.
July 2006 | By Owen Edwards

Tocqueville's America

The French author's piquant observations on American gumption and political hypocrisy sound remarkably contemporary 200 years after his birth
July 2005 | By Clell Bryant

The great Lakota chief Red Cloud

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

Friendly to whites most of his life, Mandan Chief Four Bears (in an 1832 portrait by George Catlin) turned bitter as death approached, blaming them for the disease that would kill him.

Tribal Fever

Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late
May 2005 | By Landon Y. Jones


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