A look inside The Nevada Test Site November 11, 2019 More nuclear bombs have been detonated in America than in any other country in the world. Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National Security Test Site was the primary location for these activities, withstanding more than a thousand nuclear tests that left swaths of the American Southwest resembling the moon. Read More
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence March 27, 2019 The Nineteenth Amendment, which allowed women to vote in the United States, was ratified 99 years ago. Read More
Rebecca Bedell on Moved to Tears October 05, 2018 In her new book Moved to Tears, Rebecca Bedell overturns received ideas about sentimental art, arguing that major American artists—from John Trumbull and Charles Willson Peale in the eighteenth century and Asher Durand and Winslow Homer in the nineteenth to Henry Ossawa Tanner and Frank Lloyd Wright in the early twentieth—produced what was understood in their time as sentimental art. Read More