Looking Through the Past

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Homes for Everybody?

False Dawns and Long Shadows in Iranian History

Bacchanalia Reborn

Excelling Above All Fruits

“I Am the First Man to Read That!”

The Anatomy of a Great Painting

The Other Two

The Futurist Trap

Phrenology's Bumpy Path

Who Invented the “Founding Fathers?”

There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look

The Brutal Origins of the Beautiful Game

An Infinite Number of Leaflike Skins

Cosmic Propaganda

Snake Oil, Then and Now

From Walden Pond to the Ganges

What Lord Elgin Did

How a Forgotten Battle Created a More Peaceful World

2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten, Early Modern-Style

How Strange Men's Weird Collections Inspired the Modern Museum

The Hogs of New York

Visions of Greenland

Is There a Ghost in the Machine?

Battling the Blaze

Imagining the Dinosaurs

Who Owns Beauty?

Denial and Tragedy in the Age of Cholera

Time for a Change

The Ancient Art of Color

Know Nothings and the Politics of Paranoia

Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage

The Picture of Free, Untrammeled Womanhood

"The Bicycle Girls and the Costumes They Will Wear"

How Guantanamo Became a Black Hole

Riches from the Mouth of Hell

I Was Here

Nights of Misery

An Early Modern Richard Scarry

Sudan, 1898

The Power of (and the Problem With) Names

Brush Your Teeth, Drink Milk, and Watch Out for Syphilis

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