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Madeleine Thien’s voyagers embrace humanity. That makes them outlaws
In Madeleine Thien's speculative fiction about a climate-ravaged future, 7-year-old Lina learns from past voyagers and other ...
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These Ancient Scrolls Have Been a Tantalizing Mystery for 2,000 Years. Researchers Just Deciphered a Title for the First Time
Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...
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'Hamilton' author Ron Chernow's new book takes on an icon of American letters, Mark Twain
Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...
Harvard’s $27.50 ‘copy’ of Magna Carta revealed to be original worth millions
Tucked among a trove of medieval documents was Harvard Law School Manuscript 172, identified as a copy of the Magna Carta ...
Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...
Harvard thought it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta. It turned out to be extremely rare
A rare copy of the Magna Carta from 1300 sits in a display case on April 15, 2025, at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. BOSTON — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the ...
What we get wrong about Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...