Letter, Diaries

A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo’s frescoes—and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age. What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie M …

T. J. Clark offers profound insights into Bruegel’s art, where we encounter a reality formed from wholly worldly materials, yet suspended between belief and disbelief. Renowned art historian T. J. Cl …

The Soviet Union has endured through much in this world. The World Wars, the Cold War, and the Space Race, and has lasted through all of them. The Red Banner, shielded by the hammer and sickle, flies …

This is a collection of letters written by the nine African American defendants in the infamous March 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case. Though most of the defendants were barely literate and all w …

During his 2009-2010 combat tour in Afghanistan, battalion commander Lt. Col. Michael J. Forsyth kept a daily journal. In it he candidly wrote about his daily interactions with the Afghan government, …

Abelard, a prominent twelfth-century theologian, is hired to tutor Heloise, a brilliant pupil who becomes his lover and the mother of his child. Although the two are secretly married, a misunderstand …

A Lady, Her Letters, Our Legacy; Hand Painted, is a letter writing look, into more than one girls story. It is a literary, oil painted portrait, of a fair haired child. A painting of life chosen over …