Russia has been a major force in the world’s oil market since the Soviet era. Last year, it ranked third behind the United States and Saudi Arabia in oil production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Discussion of Russian oil often...
Otto F. Ege, an Ohio-based scholar and book dealer, made a controversial practice of dismantling medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and selling the individual leaves for profit during the first half of the last century.Among the Ege acquisitions is this...
The Edith Wharton papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library contain about 50,000 items, including the author’s voluminous correspondence, drafts of her short stories and essays, and manuscripts of most her novels, including “The House of...
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and jailed on June 11, 1964 after attempting to integrate the white-only Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida.Four days later, released on bail, he attended commencement ceremonies at Yale University where he...