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… Byrd Press. $60.00. “Virginia Historical Portraiture” commemorates an occasion worthy of its own splendor. The … entire project of Virginia House and the Exhibition, has also made himself responsible for the editing of the book. … According to the biographical sketch William Randolph died in 1711; Hesselius was born in 1728. Randolph’s costume …

… of the Future the endlessly renewed vision of a Perfect Commonwealth.” The historian of the future, viewing European … of the persecution of the Jews, reminiscent of the medieval ages and of the expulsion under Ferdinand … normally in the Middle Ages and found culminating points in men like St. Francis and Dante, was deflected by …

… garment manufacturers like China and India, both of which also grow significant portions of the global cotton supply. This international supply chain is comparatively new. Through the mid-​twentieth century, more … cost only rises: In 2013, more than 1,100 garment workers died in Bangladeshi factories. The Bangladesh RMG industry …

… The following post by Kelli Marshall is part of our online companion to our  Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood.  … with radio documentaries and week-long film festivals, one of which even featured a “ Gene Kelly ceilidh ” … his legacy are still going on. In 2013 for example, some audiences will be treated to screenings of Singin’ in the Rain …

… of Trollope The only great novelist, I believe, to have died of laughing, Anthony Trollope, made a generous end. For … to imagine what he would have made of the greatest compliment ever paid him, which was Tolstoy’s. “He confounds … last, is an open elite. II Trollope’s political fiction deals with two large issues of public affairs: the one …