In the summer of 2021, during the final preparations for my “Dostoevsky at 200” exhibition at the University of Iowa Main ...

It’s the place where Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were born, the house built for one of the most popular American writers of 19th century, Mark Twain. The Mark Twain House on Farmington Avenue in Hartford ...

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IT was in this week of 1812 that the quite remarkable Robert Fortune was born. The Scottish botanist credited with altering the economies of the ...

“I find beauty in restraint,” reflects RG Struble, a self-taught talent who splits her time between the Lone Star and Golden states. After a lifelong exploration of the visual arts, she found ...