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With his stylish clothes and powdered wig, Stede Bonnet (in a c. 1725 woodcut) stood out among the bearded, unkempt, ill-mannered pirates with whom he sailed.

The Gentleman Pirate

How Stede Bonnet went from wealthy landowner to villain on the sea
August 01, 2007 | By Amy Crawford

For Hemingway, Cuba was a place to relax (the waters off Cojimar, where he docked his fishing boat, the Pilar) and a place to write.

Hemingway's Cuba, Cuba's Hemingway

His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever
August 2007 | By Valerie Hemingway

a replica of the amber room

A Brief History of the Amber Room

Dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World," the room that once symbolized peace was stolen by Nazis then disappeared for good
August 01, 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

"The painter," Edward Hopper often observed, "paints to reveal himself through what he sees in his subject." Chop Suey dates from 1929.

Hopper

Mystery. Longing. A whole new way of seeing. A stunning retrospective reminds us why the enigmatic American artist retains his power
July 2007 | By Avis Berman

Earhart was equally at home in the air and on the pages of fashion magazines.Earhart was equally at home in the air and on the pages of fashion magazines.

The Flight Stuff

Amelia Earhart brought her own special style—even to her outerwear
July 2007 | By Owen Edwards

On March 15, 1781, American forces inflicted heavy losses on the British Army at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. The redcoats had seemed invincible only a few months before.

100 Days That Shook the World

The all-but-forgotten story of the unlikely hero who ensured victory in the American Revolution
July 2007 | By John Ferling

The Sucevita Monastery was built in the last decades of the 16th century in the Moldavian style, a blend of Byzantine and Gothic art and architecture. The exterior walls

Scripture Alfresco

In northeastern Romania, 450-year-old paintings on the exterior of monasteries and churches-—now open again for worship-—tell vivid tales of saints and prophets, heaven and hell
June 2007 | By Andrew Curry

This world map by German cartographer Henricus Martellus (who lived in Florence, Italy) shows the world as Europe knew it in 1489. Though it reflected many new discoveries, it was largely based on ancient sources, including the maps of Ptolemy, which dated to the second century A.D. In a few years, voyages by Christopher Columbus and other explorers, especially the Portuguese, would change the map considerably. "It

Global Empire

The curator of an ambitious new exhibition explains how Portugal brought the world together
June 01, 2007 | By Amy Crawford

Joan of Arc

France's Leading Lady

Relics from her 1431 execution are a forgery. Will we ever know the real Joan of Arc?
June 01, 2007 | By Amy Crawford

"Getting to the Pacific by ship, without having to go over land, was the biggest challenge of that period," says Helen Nadar. "[Magellan

The Man Who Sailed the World

Ferdinand Magellan's global journey gave him fame, but took his life
June 01, 2007 | By Haley Crum

Organization Man

Carl Linnaeus, born 300 years ago, brought order to nature's blooming, buzzing confusion
May 2007 | By Kennedy Warne

This Honus Wagner baseball card sold for $2.35 million in March.

A Brief History of the Honus Wagner Baseball Card

From cigarette pack insert to multi-million-dollar treasure
May 01, 2007 | By David Zax

The Deciding Moment

A newly published scrapbook of Henri Cartier-Bresson's early photographs is changing some notions about how he worked
April 2007 | By Sarah Boxer

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

Born Ehrich Weiss in Budapest Hungary in 1874, the future escape artist soon immigrated to the United States with his family. A showman with great charisma, Weiss changed his name to Houdini in homage to Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, the founder of modern magic, and took off for the vaudeville stage. Here, the struggling performer met Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, then a member of the song-and-dance act The Floral Sisters. (Corbis)

Houdini Revealed

Some 80 years after his death, Harry Houdini is back in the public spotlight. This photo essay sheds light on the escape artist's life
April 01, 2007 | By Whitney Dangerfield

Comic Phyllis Diller's Cabinet Keeps the Jokes Coming

The stand up comic's archive holds a lifetime of proven punch lines
March 2007 | By Owen Edwards

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

By touching the spinning bowls with wet fingers, Ben Franklin produced chords and complex melodies.

Second Time Around

Invented by Ben Franklin but lost to history, the glass harmonica has been resurrected by modern musicians
February 01, 2007 | By Catherine Clarke Fox


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