• "The Great American Foot Race"

    Training run before the big race, spring 1928

  • Renaissance Cipher Disks

    Folger Shakespeare Library

  • "The Many Lives of Eddie Rickenbacker"

    On the bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, ca 1915

  • Go: Thinking Hard

    European Go Championships, 2017

  • "The Great American Foot Race"

    Johnny Salo leads into hometown, Passaic, NJ, Day 83

  • Enigma

    German Cipher Machine, WWII

  • "The Many Lives of Eddie Rickenbacker"

    In his Nieuport 28, 1918

  • Go: Having Fun

    American Go Association clubs

  • America's Cryptologists

    William and Elizebeth Friedman, ca 1917

  • Go: Around the World

    Cuban Girls Play Go

  • "The Gold Bug" Cipher

    Edgar Allan Poe's Famous Literary Cryptogram

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The Genius of Buster Keaton
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Buster Keaton was only twenty-two years-old but already a seventeen-year veteran of the stage when he walked out on the family vaudeville act. What had begun as knockabout comedy with father, Joe, throwing... READ MORE

2 Aug 2022

Making History
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History is not one thing, but two. It is the past, and it is the story we tell ourselves about the past. Hilary Mantel explains the distinction: “History is not the past–it is... READ MORE

6 Jun 2022

Young Radicals of the 1910s
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“This is a story about hope and what comes after hope, and despair and what comes after despair.” (xiii) This may sound over-wrought, and it is. Jeremy McCarter can say that is what... READ MORE