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The Glorious History of Handel’s Messiah
A musical rite of the holiday season, the Baroque-era oratorio still awes listeners more than 250 years after the composer’s death
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The composer’s early-Georgian town house reflects his life and times
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Norman Rockwell’s Neighborhood
A new book offers a revealing look at how the artist created his homey illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post
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The first rule of holiday shopping: There are no rules
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The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World
Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world
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The Mystery of Bosnia’s Ancient Pyramids
An amateur archaeologist says he’s discovered the world’s oldest pyramids in the Balkans. But many experts remain dubious
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