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Players moving pieces along a track to be first to reach a goal was the archetypal board game format of the 18th and 19th century. Alex Andriesse looks at one popular incarnation in which these pieces progress chronologically through history itself, usually with some not-so-subtle ideological, moral, or national ideal as the object of the game. …more
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Rebecca Rego Barry on David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton…more
Angus Trumble on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company’s curious but longstanding fixation…more
In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from…more
Selection of book covers produced during the bookbinding revolution of the 19th century and beyond.more
Highlights from the CMA’s release of more than 34,000 digital images of…more
How the Soane family tomb provided inspiration for London’s iconic red telephone…more
William H. Matthews’ vast and richly illustrated encyclopaedic portrait of these mysterious phenomena across time and…more
Unique edition of Lewis Carroll’s classic, published in Gregg shorthand.more
The American librarian C.A. Cutter looks forward from 1883 to “the library…more
A wide variety of roses by the “Raphael of Flowers” Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840), one of the finest botanical illustrators of all time.Read more
A collection of Valentine’s related images to celebrate the season of love.Read more
Having gorged himself on Welsh Rarebit — melted cheese on toast — a man hallucinates his…more
First film by stop-motion animation pioneer Willis O’Brien who in 1933 would…more
Short educational film on what can be seen in the night sky…more
Songs from Shakespeare plays as recorded by Victor in the first two decades of the twentieth…more
In this novelty recording by the Norwegian actor Henry Klauser, a mournful…more
First known recording of the popular African American spiritual performed in 1909…more
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