DALLAS (AP).- As commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower explicitly ordered his troops to safeguard objects of cultural and historical importance whenever possible — even while fighting a war of devastat…
Historians from Canadian Archivists’ Association Want Communist Files Protected
BUDAPEST (AP).- People spied on by Hungary’s communist-era secret police could decide the future of the surveillance reports under a government proposal historians say would damage the country’s ability to know about its past. The regime’s network of i…
Dozens of Thomas Jefferson’s Books Found at Washington University in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (AP).- Dozens of Thomas Jefferson’s books, some including handwritten notes from the nation’s third president, have been found in the rare books collection at Washington University in St. Louis. Now, historians are poring through the 69 newly…
Research by Italians Confirms that Raphael’s ‘Madonna dell Granduca’ was Amended
FLORENCE.- An X-ray analysis has shown that the dark background that appears in one of the most famous paintings by Raphael, the Madonna dell Granduca, is not original, but was added by a painter, who is still unknown. It was until the seventeenth cent…
Museum of the Confederacy Opens Civil War Message, Decodes It: No Help Coming
RICHMOND, VA.- A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago. The dispatch offere…
Merseyside Maritime Museum’s Sailortown Project: Casting Light on Vanished World
LIVERPOOL.- People have been recalling their memories of Liverpool’s once-vibrant seafaring district in a study linked to Merseyside Maritime Museum displays. Historians, museum curators and film-makers are collaborating on the Mapping Memory of t…
The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world
Fondazione Antonio Ratti The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world Fall 2010 – Fall 2012 Fondazione Antonio Ratti Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio, 19 22100 Como – Italy Info: +39031233211 http://www.fondazioneratti.org Fondazione Antonio Ratti, together with the Camera di Commercio di Como (in the ambit of the initiative Laboratorio Como 2010) are pleased to announce […]
Bonhams to Sell Portrait of Napoleon by His Valet and Friend
LONDON.- Bonhams are to sell a near-contemporary portrait of Napoleon painted by his valet and close companion Louis-Joseph-Narcisse Marchand in the British & Continental Pictures auction in Knightsbridge on 30 November 2010. Marchand (1791-1876) was …
British Library Posts Greek Manuscripts to Web
LONDON (AP).- One of the world’s most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years. The British Library said Monday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,0…
Skeleton of 18th Century Whale Found by Archaeologists in London
LONDON (REUTERS).- The skeleton of a huge whale, thought to have been butchered for its meat, bone and oils 300 years ago, has been discovered by archaeologists on the banks of London’s River Thames. The remains of the headless beast, the now rare Nort…