Digest
For millennia, artists around the world have illustrated the endless creative possibilities of humble paper. The ancient Chinese, who were the first to pound bark fibers into flexible sheets, …
In 2008, when Alicia Yin Cheng stumbled across an article in the New Yorker chronicling the strange, fraught history of American elections, she had no idea that just twelve years later she would be…
It began with Begotten, filmmaker E. Elias Merhige’s 1989 black-and-white allegory about death and transformation.
There’s a pervasive notion that young people, screen in hand, do not enjoy books the way older generations do, and yet collegiate book collecting contests remain popular.
When Whitman College sociology professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña was in high school, he came across a story that would change his life.
William Shakespeare made some rounds in his time, and many, many more rounds after his time.
This year’s suffrage centennial puts the spotlight on women’s history, four centuries of which are preserved in the Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism.
