While we look to the new millennium with both trepidation and amusement, medieval scholars argue about what really happened at this time 1,000 years ago
What will be, will be. Or will it? As the millennium draws nigh, prophets want to tell us about it
For the collector of history in print, old news is good news
In 1848 when it came time to declare the rights of women, this tilt-top table provided solid support
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Aldo Leopold articulated a new way to look at the land and its creatures
Painting martyrs and producing state funerals and pageants, the artist fueled France's bloody revolutionary fervor
Tales of pirates, diplomacy and espionage frame America's liaison with the exotic city
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Renowned as the Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, Gertrude Bell was once the most powerful woman in the British Empire
In the Spanish Civil War, as a horrified world watched, the future of Europe seemed at stake
Or how a mustachioed Barcelona artist foiled an elaborate plot to spirit Catalonia's priceless Romanesque paintings away from their homeland
When a ballpoint pen czar and a hotshot pilot went looking for the world's tallest peak, all they found was trouble
As philanthropy ebbs, the Smithsonian Council advises prudence in our search for corporate sponsorship
In 1839, African freemen, seized as slaves, struck a daring blow for freedom
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Sound half-baked? Not to Bill Ury, coauthor of the "negotiator's bible," as he mediates a peace talk between the Russians and the Chechens
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