The ruins of the Library of Ebla, 55km outside of modern-day Aleppo, Syria This article features the research of Dr. Lydia Pyne, Writer and Historian. Do you have a bookshelf in your home or office? Is it organized a specific way? Sometimes people place their books apparently “randomly,” but more often, some kind of pattern […]
Why on earth is Elizabeth Taylor lassoing her director?
This article features the research of Dr. Don B. Graham. It’s a blazing hot afternoon in the small town of Marfa in West Texas, 1955. Tensions are running high. Rock Hudson groans at James Dean’s bravado and juvenile rebellious attitude—Hudson hated Dean and said so explicitly on multiple occasions. Elizabeth Taylor became very close with […]
What on earth do an anarchist protest, a seamstress, and a Thanksgiving parade have in common?
This article features the research of Dr. Jacqueline Jones, Professor and Chair of the History Department; Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History Decades before oversized balloons of Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse filled American skies during commercially-sponsored Thanksgiving day parades, a very different object was […]
What on earth does this 18th-century bad boy have to do with Jane Austen?
Portrait of Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet (1708–81) in an Oriental Coat and Turban. Courtesy of the Dashwood Heirloom Collection, West Wycombe Park, The National Trust, ©NTPL / John Hammond. This article features the work of Dr. Janine Barchas, Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in English Literature at the University of Texas at […]
What on earth were these tropical primates doing in Southern California?
Painting on marble by Randwulph (Randy Kirk) This article features the work of Dr. Chris Kirk, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin Everyone has heard of the “ice age”—no, not the movie, but the period known as the Pleistocene, when Earth’s temperature dropped and glaciers spread. But have you ever heard […]
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