When Thomas Allen Harris learned his brother was HIV positive in the early 1990s, he did the only thing he could think of to cope with the news: He picked up a video camera to chronicle his brother’s life.
At that time, the diagnosis was a “death sentence...
The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt — the largest empire of its time — collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital, Nineveh, in 612 B.C.E.
Despite a plethora of cuneiform...
In June 1849, the Yale College librarian received a three-month-old letter from Canton, China, informing him that the sender, an American missionary printer named Samuel Wells Williams, had purchased six Chinese classical texts for the Yale library. The...
“Museum Communities and Equity” is the theme of the third annual international conference of the Global Consortium for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (GCPCH), a coalition of universities, museums, and other research institutes.
This year’s event,...