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In theory, putting on an art exhibition is a rather formulaic process. You develop a theme, select works, design a layout for the gallery, and then, in the final weeks before opening, the show is installed according to plan.

Green turtle. Jowl with spinach. Coconut cake. Crab à la Mayonnaise. What's on your Thanksgiving menu? If you and yours celebrated the holiday in late 19th-century California, your table might have buckled under the weight of some of these delicacies

Bibliographers seldom get much attention, especially when they choose the literary giant Samuel Johnson as their subject. Scholar O M "Skip" Brack Jr. relished living in the shadow of such greatness, annotating scholarly editions of Johnson's writings

"Maynard L. Parker (1900–1976) built a career making residential spaces look their alluring best," says Jennifer A. Watts on the jacket copy of the new book that she edited about the acclaimed architectural photographer.

Veterans Day, an occasion to honor the nation's servicemen and women, has roots stretching back to the First World War. Yet the desire to commemorate wartime sacrifice has a much longer history.

The name Hubble is familiar to most people. It invokes mental images of the Hubble Telescope and its photographs of colorful nebulae in space, but few know details of the life of its namesake...or his cat.

Today we bring you the second part of a post by Olga Tsapina, the Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical Manuscripts and curator of the current exhibition "A Just Cause: Voices of the American Civil War."

Today and tomorrow we bring you a two-part piece by Olga Tsapina, the Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical Manuscripts and curator of the current exhibition "A Just Cause: Voices of the American Civil War."