The terror of Saddam Hussein’s secret police has lived on long after his fall through their millions of reports, which are still dragged up by Iraqi politicians and the media, often with damaging results. But Saad Iskander, the head of ...
Political art has been used for centuries in many forms including graphical, musical, performance, and literary. Visual social and political commentary constitutes a powerful tradition of artistic expression. Graphic, bright and compelling, Soviet posters are often viewed as the essence ...
Just a publicity stunt? As iconic photo ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’ turns 80, questions arise about its origin Unknown/© Bettmann/CORBIS Intrepid steel workers atop the RCA Building – now known as the GE Building – on Sept. 29, 1932. An archivist ...
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is opposing a Jewish group’s bid to have civil fines levied against Russia for failing to obey a court order to return its historic books and documents — a ...
JOHN HUDSON SEP 10, 2012 On Monday, the U.S. National Archives released 1,000 declassified documents pertaining to the 1940 massacre of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet Union. The Cliffs Notes version? America’s coverup of the infamous Katyn Massacre was more extensive ...
A Faded Piece of Papyrus Refers to Jesus’ Wife by Laurie Goodstein, the New York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in ...
William Henry “Bill” Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1945 at the age of 23 for his World War II depictions of the battle weary soldiers (or “dogfaces”): Willie and Joe. These two soldiers are based ...
By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — In grainy black-and-white film, David Ben-Gurion, a founding father of modern Israel and its first prime minister, is reading out the new state’s Declaration of Independence for the first time in May 1948. There are crowds in the ...
The Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972. Members were later taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists and then killed. JERUSALEM — The instructions from the Israeli government were clear in the hours after Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes at the ...
Centuries-old books on parchment may soon become more accessible than vital scientific writings and data from early computers. The Washington Post Magazine has a riveting account of the application of new imaging techniques to palimpsests — manuscripts recycled by scribes on valuable ...