THE MAN or THE RENAISSANCE—Ralph Roeder—Viking ($3.50). History, defined politely as “the formal record of the past,” is really organized gossip; but among the historians who retail it there are ...
What if the pages of an old book could tell us who touched them, what medicines they made, and even how their bodies ...
Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!
This collection, which dates from circa 1901-1940, contains 37 books from African-American authors associated with the Harlem Renaissance. These materials were purchased in support of the exhibit "The ...