The White House Bride Who Won a Nation’s Heart
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The White House Bride Who Won a Nation’s Heart

In this installment of ‘When Character Counted,’ we meet a first lady with several interesting ‘firsts’ all her own.

‘Rise Again’: What Stan Rogers’s Greatest Song Teaches Us About Hope
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‘Rise Again’: What Stan Rogers’s Greatest Song Teaches Us About Hope

A ship sinks, lives are shattered, yet a crew chooses to fight back. Stan Rogers’s ‘The Mary Ellen Carter’ offers a realistic, powerful anthem for rising again.

Restoring the Soul in Art: An Interview With Michael Curtis
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Restoring the Soul in Art: An Interview With Michael Curtis

The ‘classive’ artist talks about the return to what is truly beautiful and classical in art in order to ‘Make America Beautiful Again.’

The Breakers: Grace and Grandeur
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The Breakers: Grace and Grandeur

In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we tour the Vanderbilt’s Gilded Age masterpiece in Newport, Rhode Island.

Rosalba Carriera Peale: A Granddaughter’s Brushstrokes
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Rosalba Carriera Peale: A Granddaughter’s Brushstrokes

In this installment of ‘The Art of Liberty,’ we meet another member of the artistically gifted Peale family.

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The White House Bride Who Won a Nation’s Heart

The White House Bride Who Won a Nation’s Heart

In this installment of ‘When Character Counted,’ we meet a first lady with several interesting ‘firsts’ all her own.

Archeologists Unearth Passage of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ Inside a Mummy’s Wrappings

Archeologists Unearth Passage of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ Inside a Mummy’s Wrappings

Archaeologists in Egypt have found the first Greek literary text. It suggests the power of Homer’s reach.

‘Rise Again’: What Stan Rogers’s Greatest Song Teaches Us About Hope

‘Rise Again’: What Stan Rogers’s Greatest Song Teaches Us About Hope

A ship sinks, lives are shattered, yet a crew chooses to fight back. Stan Rogers’s ‘The Mary Ellen Carter’ offers a realistic, powerful anthem for rising again.

Restoring the Soul in Art: An Interview With Michael Curtis

Restoring the Soul in Art: An Interview With Michael Curtis

The ‘classive’ artist talks about the return to what is truly beautiful and classical in art in order to ‘Make America Beautiful Again.’

The Breakers: Grace and Grandeur

The Breakers: Grace and Grandeur

In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we tour the Vanderbilt’s Gilded Age masterpiece in Newport, Rhode Island.

Rosalba Carriera Peale: A Granddaughter’s Brushstrokes

Rosalba Carriera Peale: A Granddaughter’s Brushstrokes

In this installment of ‘The Art of Liberty,’ we meet another member of the artistically gifted Peale family.

Herakles and Geryon: Journey to the Edge of the World

Herakles and Geryon: Journey to the Edge of the World

Herakles’s 10th Labor becomes a test of endurance, as he journeys to the edge of the world to reclaim life and order from chaos.

Hearst Castle: The ‘Art Fever’ and an Inspired Vision

Hearst Castle: The ‘Art Fever’ and an Inspired Vision

In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we tour the famed castle that overlooks the bluffs of California’s Central Coast.

Tratzberg Castle: A Living Legend in the Tyrolean Alps

Tratzberg Castle: A Living Legend in the Tyrolean Alps

In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit Austria’s best preserved late-Gothic to early-Renaissance fortress.

Russell Senate Office Building: A Complement to the Capitol

Russell Senate Office Building: A Complement to the Capitol

In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we admire a beaux arts building used by U.S. Senators and staff.