How Julia Skinner Does History
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I want to help people see themselves as a bridge between the past and the future.
I want to help people see themselves as a bridge between the past and the future.
Smoke your way to a peaceful working-class life.
The master of the psychodrama mystery was Jim Thompson.
Fashion history is rarely as straightforward as Nancy Drew led me to believe.
In both versions of this question, the assumption is that there’s a pure history out there somewhere, perhaps with answers in the appendix.
“I was trying to write the life of a man who had no life. What other options did I have?”
“Archival work involves building relationships.”
I was comfortable with the components of a press and the processes of printing. At least in theory.
“To see scholars use the papers in their own research to produce groundbreaking history is something we celebrate.”
How-to books, including those which promise the secret to wealth, are not a modern invention.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans in Cairo collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works rarely found in other libraries.
Performed once a year, the Exsultet features rich descriptions of sights, sounds, scents—and bees.
Behind Dover Publications’ eclectic 10,000-title catalog lies a remarkable story of 20th century innovation.
Over its four-decade run, LIFE Magazine had 105 staff photographers. Six of them were women.
The classic Parsi cookbook has changed much over the decades, yet remains curiously old-fashioned.