On Homesickness
'The Soldier's Dream of Home,' a Currier & Ives lithograph produced during the Civil War, was one sign of the great attention that soldiers' homesickness received. Courtesy of Library of Congress....
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I was the 501st person to join Facebook. The inimitable Hatty Hong, number 499, urged me on from her desk across our freshman dorm room. I hardly used it the first few months because so few others were...
View ArticleShelf-Conscious
Chris Killip, 'The Library of Chained Books,' Hereford Cathedral, Hereford, UK, 1992. We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you...
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