Historic Painting: “Karneval in Nizza” by Otto Dinger, 1912.
This painting captures the fun and innocence of European society in the years just before World War I.
The Verge
In Wildness: Chris McCandless, Cheryl Strayed, and journeys of discovery.
Why does the wilderness call to us as a place of personal redemption?
Interiors: Crewman’s cabin from the SS Balao (reconstructed), Norway, early 1970s.
There is some very interesting Norwegian and nautical history on display in this photo.
Thunder from above: the demise of the U.S. Navy airship USS Akron.
Historic Photo: Sons and grandsons of Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island, 1862.
America’s Paris: the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
The vanished societies of the Pacific: A tantalizing historical mystery.
Many Pacific islands were populated in the distant past, long before their modern inhabitants got there. Who were they?