America is filled with local history museums, town libraries, and regional art museums containing some of the finest examples of early American portraiture
A Charmed Life (From our Archives)
English inspiration, American creativity, and a bit of historical luck are joined in the author’s house and gardens
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture: July 8 to 14
How to engage with the arts on your phone or laptop
New light: More squares from Mrs. Miner’s carpet (From our Archives)
Discoveries come in such unexpected ways
Critical Thinking, Difficult Issues: Jeepers Creepers
It all started with a hair bun
New Light: Notes on a Vermont Schoolgirl Embroidery
Vermont? Especially rural, north-central Vermont? Vermont hardly figures in the standard literature on schoolgirl needlework
Editor’s Letter–July/August 2020
A new name has been added to the list of people I admire greatly: Azie Dungey
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture: July 1 to 7
How to engage with the arts on your phone or laptop
Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor (From our Archives)
By the middle of the eighteenth century the “greene Country Towne” founded by William Penn in 1682 was bustling with commercial and social activity
Curious Objects: An Armchair’s Astonishing Provenance, with Tiffany Momon
This month, Ben speaks with Tiffany Momon, visiting assistant professor at Sewanee in Tennessee, where she assists with the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation, and founder of the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive