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Photograph by Irving Penn | John Gunther, New … The Book That Unleashed American Grief
John Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.
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Illustration by Valerie Chiang; images from Hulton Archive … The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement
The cause produced undaunted trailblazers, Black and white, who continued to pursue social reform.
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Rizzoli The Kids’ Guide to the Postwar World
Half a century ago, a Czech illustrator’s vivid travel books helped open young minds to the rest of the planet.
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Marc Burckhardt Before Straight and Gay
The discreet, disorienting passions of the Victorian era
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Associated Press Why Winston Churchill Was So Bad With Money
The British prime minister could handle the Blitz but not his bills.
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R. Kikuo Johnson How Indie Rock Changed the World
The influence of geeks with guitars on culture, from DIY to social media
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Pep Montserrat The Strangest Power Couple
What Mary Anne and Benjamin Disraeli can tell us about the Clintons
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Why We Look the Way We Look Now
The modern style of clothes emerged in the Depression, and so did the focus on the figure beneath the fabric—with a startling result: as Americans' wardrobes became more similar, bodies diverged along class lines.
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John Warwick Brooke/British Imperial War Museums The War No Image Could Capture
Photography has given us iconic representations of conflict since the Civil War—with a notable exception. Why, during the Great War, the camera failed.
