From queries submitted by telephone and in person to the New York Public Library’s Reference and Research Services between 1940 and 1989.
From Of Beards and Men, by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, which will be published next month by the University of Chicago Press. Oldstone-Moore is a senior lecturer in history at Wright State…
The Islamic State's influence grows; James Harkin interviews its fighters, enemies, and potential recruits
Before the invention of the electric telegraph enabled man to outrival the boast of Shakespeare’s Puck that he would “put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes,” the…