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The Life And Career Of J. C. Leyendecker, The Most Prominent Commercial Artist Of The Early 20th Century
In the early 20th century, J. C. Leyendecker rose to prominence as an illustrator whose work was seen everywhere from soap ...
The Hindu3d
Why NEP 2020 may be undermining real learning in universities
On paper, the NEP champions interdisciplinarity, flexibility, and employability, appealing terms that resonate with global trends in 21st-century learning. But beneath this progressive surface ...
100 years ago, the Social Gospel movement pushed to improve workers’ lives – but also to promote its vision of Christian America
How has white Christian nationalism changed since the Gilded Age? A religion scholar compares the Social Gospel with the ...
When a democratic medium documented a democratic nation
NEW YORK — Each word in the title of “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910” matters. So do the dates, especially that ...
pharmaphorum4d
A history of the pharmaceutical industry
An advert for Bayer's Aspirin from the early 20th century Bayer had the aspirin trademark and its US assets seized during World War One, whilst “American” Merck (now Merck & Co. in the US or ...
Jewish Press3d
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is director of the Schulmann School of Basic Jewish Studies and professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of, among ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
The History of the Doughnut
Fast-forward to the mid-19th century and Elizabeth Gregory ... And it was right about then, in the early 1950s, that the first Ring King started churning away in the back room.