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“Nor must Uncle Sam’s Web-feet be forgotten”
The greatest prose stylist America has yet produced, was also our greatest president.
Jun 10
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Brad Skow
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“A cross between Abe Lincoln and Jesus”: Jim Henson invents the Muppet
Jim Henson knew from the first that he wanted to work in television.
Jun 6
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Brad Skow
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Emo Ben Franklin / Birthday Sale
Abraham Lincoln never referred to the Confederacy as if it were a separate nation. Instead they were “states in rebellion,” or “the seceded states, so…
Jun 4
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Brad Skow
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May 2026
Book Review: The Discarded Life by Adam Kirsch
Entire years of your life will blur together, or be forgotten. Eventually, some effort to rescue what is left becomes necessary, and some reckoning with…
May 30
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Brad Skow
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Gloucester Harbor
Summer is here!
May 24
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Brad Skow
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The Plague Crucifix
Truth, Justice, Beauty: the three highest goods, right?
May 16
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Brad Skow
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Winged Victory on Foot
Universally recognized as the most important work held in the Louvre, Winged Victory of Samothrace stands atop the Daru staircase.
May 9
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Brad Skow
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The Spirit of a Broken People: French Letters of Denunciation
The Book of Isaiah is full of prophesies.
May 1
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Brad Skow
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April 2026
Disneyland as Art and Representation
Disneyland is criticized, by many, as an expression of the spirit of the 1950s.
Apr 25
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Brad Skow
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Lexington and Concord
Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is the most famous poem about the American Revolution, but it’s mostly myth.
Apr 18
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Brad Skow
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You Too Could Found a Nation and Become its President
John Adams grew up in Braintree, Massachusetts, thirteen miles south of Boston.
Apr 10
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Brad Skow
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Baldur von Schirach Interviewed at Nuremberg
Baldur von Schirach Interviewed at Nuremberg
Apr 4
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Brad Skow
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