For more than a century now, American homeowners have been struggling to remake their small patch of the environment into a soft, green carpet just like the neighbor’s. Who told us this was the way a lawn had to be?

Eakins In Light And Shadow

Authored by: Jack Flam

The man who may be America’s greatest artist liked to fend off the curious with the statement “My life is all in my works. ” He was right, but the works and the life take on new poignance with the release and exhibition of a once-private collection of his letters, photographs, and sketchbooks.

Have Our Manners Gone To Hell?

Authored by: John Strausbaugh

A controversial recent book suggests that what we think of as good manners is a relatively new thing, a commodity manufactured to meet the needs of an industrial age. But now that the Industrial Revolution is over, we may need them more than ever—for very different reasons.

The 1840s:

Authored by: The Editors

“Above All, Don’t Attempt to Be Too Fine”

THE TIME MACHINE

Time Machine

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