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How One of History’s Most Famous and Beloved Movies Was Almost Forgotten
One famous shot in the first minutes of the film, showing reflections in a smashed snow globe, anticipates the film’s grand themes of ambition and legacy and the cracked mirror of memory. Welles ...
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The New Faces of Rare Book Collecting: Young Adults Redefine What It Means To Be A Rare Book Collector
Rare book collecting, a hobby historically maintained by eccentric billionaires and wealthy universities, is now taking on ...
Our Daytona 500 book, High Banks & Heroes, tells colorful history of Great American Race
"High Banks & Heroes," with foreword by Richard Petty, tells the history of the Daytona 500. But it also chronicles earlier ...
The Best Classic Books to Have on Your Bookshelf
From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...
19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...
A stool, a bread knife, and books: How the keepers of L.A.’s most famous homes chose what to save during the fires
When the Los Angeles-area fires came for the Eames and Gamble houses, preservationists had to choose what to save. Here’s ...
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8 Historical Fiction Books About Alexander Hamilton Full of Drama!
What’s your name, man? Alexander Hamilton.” Whether you’re a history buff or a musical lover, it’s likely you know a thing or ...
5 Things History Books Didn’t Tell Us About Rosa Parks’ Famous Arrest
Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you ...
‘Revolutionary’: Projects uncover Kentucky’s Black history, one digital document at a time
More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...
Worcester County Wonders: The unintended consequences of Westborough's most famous native
After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...
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Black History Month: 19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...
Please touch: Rare, unusual and artistic books are making Miami a center of print culture
How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...