An introduction to the artworks collected in the National Gallery of Art, featuring updated, revised, and expanded articles from Inside scoop, the Gallery's quarterly children's publication. Includes brief biographies and selective insights into the lives and works of over 50 art...
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As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson ...
Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 18-Aug. 27, 1989, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Sept. 9-Nov. 5, 1989, and at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, Nov. 23-Jan. 21, 1990.
When Elyce Arons first met Katy Brosnahan in a University of Kansas dorm room, she had no idea that this polo shirt–wearing Missouri girl would not only become her best friend but also change the course of her life. Back then, Katy and Elyce were preoccupied with frat parties and...
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson ...
The Legacy of Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) - as writer, teacher and conservationist - once moved Edward Abbey to declare him "the only living American worthy of the Nobel." Unequaled in the American literature of place, his Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction created an entirely new co...
"In the tradition of the modern classics The tender bar by J.R. Moehringer and The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, Blaine Lourd's Born on the Bayou is a powerful gothic memoir set in the bayous and oil towns of 1970s Louisiana. Coonass: [koon-as] (noun, slang, from the French conasse),...