Thirteen-year-old Zak “Zippy” Huot aspires to perform on Broadway one day. So last summer he was thrilled when, over a Zoom meeting, he learned that some Broadway actors would perform songs for a musical for which he wrote the lyrics. Zak could barely...
Every artwork comes with its own set of challenges for conservators and curators, not least of which is curbing the effects of time. To that end, a device known as a microfading tester (MFT) gives art stewards a much better sense of where and for how long...
As Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko prepared her papers for transfer to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, she wrote a brief narrative on a cardboard manuscript box that had contained an editor’s copy of “Ceremony,” her breakthrough...
On May 5, 1943, three wolf packs of German U-boats attacked ONS-5, an Allied merchant convoy sailing from British ports to New York City to retrieve stocks of oil, ores, sheet steel, and other vital war supplies.
Since the beginning of World War II, the...
A young woman stands defiantly as two police officers clad in body armor and riot helmets attempt to arrest her. They reach for her and yet seem to fall away, as though her poise repels them.
The woman, Ieshia Evans, was protesting the July 2016 killing...