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Highlights from Swann Galleries' April 9 Autographs auction include:Friedrich NietzscheAn uncommon…
An exhibition examining the graphic art of Alphonse Mucha will open at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of…
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An unsent version of the 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt warning that Germany could be assembling nuclear weaponry comes to auction on September 10 at Christie's.Einstein wrote in his short note that "Recent work in nuclear physics made it probable that uranium may…
Organisers of the Brontë Society Conference have issued a call for papers for its 2025 edition, Under an African summer’s sun: Re-mapping the Brontës: Place, Race and Empire.
Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse by Alan MacEachern
The 50th anniversary of Robert A. Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, published on September 16, 1974, is celebrated in a new exhibition at The New-York Historical Society.
2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth and Jane Austen's House in Chawton, Hampshire, will be celebrating with numerous events during the year.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962, its take on the events surrounding the historic events of 1789 when unhappy crewmen took over control of HMS Bounty while sailing through the South Pacific.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Freeman’s | Hindman will bring a unique piece of American and French history to the auction block in September for its Books and Manuscripts auction in Philadelphia.
Scripts from the personal library of the late American director-producer Stanley Kramer will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions on July 25-26.Kramer concentrated on tackling subjects with important social and political messages, earning 85 Academy Award nominations and 15 wins over 35 movies…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Sam Butler, General Manager of Hermitage Books in Denver, Colorado.
