Early 20th Century
Frida Kahlo
The Mexican artist's myriad faces, stranger-than-fiction biography and powerful paintings come to vivid life in a new film
November 2002 |
By Phyllis Tuchman
It's a Wurlitzer
The giant of the musical instrument collection makes tunesrootin'tootin' or romantic
April 2002 |
By Mary K. Miller
Meet Me at the Automat
Horn & Hardart gave big city Americans a taste of good fast food in its chrome-and-glass restaurants
August 2001 |
By Carolyn Hughes Crowley
Reaching Toward Space
His 1935 rocket was a technological tour de force, but Robert H. Goddard hid it from history.
February 2001 |
By Tom D. Crouch
The Last Schoolhouse
When a handful of senior citizens revisit the school they attended years ago, they become children again
August 2000 |
By Rudolph Chelminski
Othmar Ammann's Glory
Genius, willpower and thousands of miles of steel wire went into the George Washington Bridge
October 1999 |
By Valerie Jablow
Reds versus Whites
A masterpiece in porcelain replays old struggles between Bolshevik and Czarist opponents
July 1999 |
By Edwards Park
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
In Ponzi We Trust
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul is a scheme made famous by Charles Ponzi. Who was this crook whose name graces this scam?
December 1998 |
By Mary Darby
Wow! A Mile a Minute!
But 60 mph was a breeze to Barney Oldfield, better known as the "speed king" of the horseless carriage world
May 1998 |
By Michael Kernan
A Symbol That Failed
In 1918, a hopeful France gave Mrs. Wilson a peace brooch, but peace eluded her husband and the world
January 1998 |
By Edwards Park
Around the Mall & Beyond
In 1939 Moritz Schoenberger, a Hungarian Jew living in Vienna, wanted to join his family in America. His ordeal as a refugee aboard the S.S. St. Louis is told at the National Postal Museum
June 1995 |
By Michael Kernan
