His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?...
Day: June 18, 2018
A new exhibition at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate in Charlottesville, Va., displays artifacts from Sally Hemings, in...
Illustration from Moonblight (1889) – Internet Archive An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of...
Portrait of Swedenborg painted in 1817, after Swedenborg’s death, by Carl Frederik von Breda – Wikimedia Commons During...
Trump supporters featured on the Trump campaign website Rather than live with contradiction, we figure out a...
By Dr. Ed Simon / 06.17.2018 Associate Editor Marginalia Review of Books Toward the end of the Second Great...
Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook’s...
An Elephant (detail) in Miscellany: Physiologus and other texts, about 1510–20, unknown illuminator, made in Crete, Greece. Pen and...