In today’s newsletter, Andrew Marantz reports on Tucker Carlson’s influence on Trumpism, and then: “Put your earphones on to white noise, and just look around,” Tucker Carlson has said. “Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?”Photographs […]
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The word “Seminole” is derived from the Muscogean word simanó-li, or “runaway,” reflecting a common heritage, as Upper Creeks from Alabama, Lower Creeks from Georgia, other affiliated tribes and escaped African slaves all sought sanctuary in Spanish Florida. There they mixed
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Still Life Under the Lamp, Pablo Picasso, 1962 @ Succession Picasso / DACS, London 2024 Pablo Picasso is most famous for his role in the Cubist movement, creating abstract paintings that showed a subject from multiple perspectives. Now, a new
Early this year I was alerted to the opportunity to acquire this unusual lithograph from 1865. I was surprised to find that neither the Library of Congress nor the New York Public Library, which has a large collection of digitized
October 29, 2024 by Gil Vilarinho One of our 2023 Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship winners, Gil Vilarinho, provides us with an update: As Roman stone exploitation was not hitherto subject to any systematic analysis in what is now Portugal, our
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Scientists have broken a 100-year-old chemistry rule to synthesize a class of molecules previously thought to be too unstable to form. The molecules in question violate Bredt’s rule, which describes where certain types of bonds can occur within a class
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As the United States stood on the brink of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the urgent need for innovative military strategies to effectively confront the impending global conflict. Observing the unfolding events in Europe, he realized that
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The National Archives, in partnership with Forces War Records, the leading military family history website from Ancestry®, has launched a digital collection of Royal Flying Corps and successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards. The collection contains almost
When it comes to classics of literature, it can feel like there’s a lot of pressure to nod along with the crowd and say that some authors are just brilliant, full stop. But sometimes even great literature isn’t so great.
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