Treasure

Pony Plunges

Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea

by Max J. Krupnick

Shifting Sands

Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari

by Sophia Nguyen

Gymsuits, Pre-Spandex

Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged

by Sophia Nguyen

Hard Lives, in Wax

Artifacts of embryology


by Sophia Nguyen

The Benton Gospels

Rare and beautiful, then and now: a Byzantine codex at Dumbarton Oaks

by Bailey Trela

Games of Old

Amusements to dispel the winter blues  

by Diane E. Booton

Eye on the Cosmos

The telescope that helped define Earth’s place in the universe

by Jonathan Shaw

A Book by Its Cover

Embroidery fit for a prince

by Christy Gordon Baty , Erin Harvey Moody

Palace Pottery

A collection of stunning Jun ceramics displayed—and analyzed

by John S. Rosenberg

Anthropology Anew

The Peabody Museum 150th is a showcase for the origins and evolution of anthropology.

by John S. Rosenberg

The Polaroid Moment

Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston

by John S. Rosenberg