History | History
Jul.30.2011
Every school child has delighted at the shimmering rainbow formed by sunlight passing through a glass prism. Yet few students or scientists have read Isaac Newton’s original text explaining how prisms work and why rainbows form in the sky. The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour includes an...
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May.12.2011
See Ya is a story that crosses generations and histories.
Lives are often stories not yet written down. Not always ended, either, which can fuse the living and telling into a path not always clear. Some tales take a long time to tell, especially when they start in 1944 and flow into 1996, and...
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Jan.26.2011
On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of soldiers stories from Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day.
The stories are collected directly from the individual veterans. Contributors represent...
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Jan.26.2011
On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of soldiers stories from Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day.
The stories are collected directly from the individual veterans. Contributors represent...
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Oct.09.2010
In our age of Netflix and streaming videos, movie attendance continues its long decline, and cinema-going is becoming ever less of the collective experience Walter Benjamin so memorably described. Throughout the city of San Francisco, however, many theaters built between 1910 and 1950 are still...
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Sep.08.2010
Growing up in Prussia (East Germany) was a wonderful experience for a young boy born into a Prussian diplomats family. That all changed when World War II began and at the age of fourteen, Gerd Brandt was swept up into a Russian POW camp and barely stayed alive working as a camp medic. This story...
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Sep.05.2010
In our age of Netflix and streaming videos, movie attendance continues its long decline, and cinema-going is becoming ever less of the collective experience Walter Benjamin so memorably described. Throughout the city of San Francisco, however, many theaters built between 1910 and 1950 are still...
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Aug.02.2010
Forever L.A. is for those who call Los Angeles home and for those who live vicariously through and have been entertained by the residents of its beautiful cemeteries. In fascinating stories and images, Douglas Keister discusses cemetery symbols, funerary architecture, and secret societies and clubs...
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Jul.30.2010
Rivers are drying and crops are dying, but children run and play in the fields, and think they might even enjoy setting monsters free. Of course, the parents won’t approve, but that’s the least of their problems, come the flood.
Next time he wakes, the young man remembers running in...
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