You Can’t Keep a Good Prophet Down
What will be, will be. Or will it? As the millennium draws nigh, prophets want to tell us about it
For the collector of history in print, old news is good news
In 1848 when it came time to declare the rights of women, this tilt-top table provided solid support
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Aldo Leopold: A Sage for All Seasons
Aldo Leopold articulated a new way to look at the land and its creatures
Painting martyrs and producing state funerals and pageants, the artist fueled France’s bloody revolutionary fervor
Tales of pirates, diplomacy and espionage frame America’s liaison with the exotic city
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Renowned as the Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, Gertrude Bell was once the most powerful woman in the British Empire
In the Spanish Civil War, as a horrified world watched, the future of Europe seemed at stake
The Case of the Disappearing Frescoes
Or how a mustachioed Barcelona artist foiled an elaborate plot to spirit Catalonia’s priceless Romanesque paintings away from their homeland
On a Bungled Flight to Nowhere, They Sought a Chinese Mountain High
When a ballpoint pen czar and a hotshot pilot went looking for the world’s tallest peak, all they found was trouble
As philanthropy ebbs, the Smithsonian Council advises prudence in our search for corporate sponsorship
In 1839, African freemen, seized as slaves, struck a daring blow for freedom
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“Expand the Pie Before You Divvy It Up”
Sound half-baked? Not to Bill Ury, coauthor of the “negotiator’s bible,” as he mediates a peace talk between the Russians and the Chechens
The Strange Journey of Heinrich Harrer
The Austrian mountain climber escaped from a prison camp in 1944, slipped into forbidden Tibet, tutored the Dalai Lama and wrote a famous book
How two brothers in an old Curtiss Robin set a record that’s stood for 62 years
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